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.
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.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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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.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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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.
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I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.
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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery.
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.
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What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.
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I'll come no more behind your scenes, David Garrick; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.
