Samuel Johnson Quotes
I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Octavio Paz -
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Barbara Walters -
Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
Nancy Lopez -
The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
Gary Lineker -
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
Dale Earnhardt -
Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
Galen Weston
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
Adam Grant -
Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
Naomie Harris -
I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
Zach Anner -
I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
Gabrielle Aplin -
My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
Taylor Momsen -
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
Hannibal Buress -
Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
Barbara De Angelis -
I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
F. W. de Klerk -
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch -
My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.
Karan Johar -
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams
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The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.
Napoleon Hill -
The venom I witnessed in that courtroom going through this trial for the second time both terrified me and saddened me.
Victoria Gotti -
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
Uta Barth -
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Charles Olson -
Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
Maika Monroe -
I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
Samuel Johnson