Samuel Johnson Quotes
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Quotes to Explore
-
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
-
There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
-
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
-
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
-
My father was a lawyer.
-
Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
-
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
-
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
-
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
-
My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
-
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
-
I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
-
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
-
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
-
I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
-
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
-
I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.
-
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.
-
Faith is a mockery if it does not teach us that we can build a more complete and beautiful world.
-
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
-
I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
-
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
