Samuel Johnson Quotes

It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'

Samuel Johnson

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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Now

• Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Work
  • Train
  • Cats

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Travel
  • Promote
  • Commercials

• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Vision
  • Pride
  • Director

• A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Good
  • Teacher
  • Good Teacher

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Marry
  • Tennessee
  • Lots

• It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Important
  • Creative
  • Leader

• In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Long
  • American
  • Focus

• You know I'm weak on good looks.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Try
  • Going
  • Unite

• I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Through
  • Singers
  • Beef

• Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Best

• We have just seen that, apart from money-capital, circulating capital is only another name for commodity-capital. But to the extent that labour power circulates in the market,it is not capital, no form of commodity-capital. It is not capital at all; the labourer is not a capitalist, although he brings a commodity to market, namely his own skin.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Power

• When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.

  

  Nick Tosches
  • Writer
  • Read
  • Novel

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
  • Cold

• I have always been a reserved and conservative person.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Always
  • Person
  • Conservative

• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Political
  • Action
  • Place

• My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television. I don't think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances.

  

  Prince Harry
  • People
  • Long
  • Mother

• It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'

  

  Samuel Johnson