Samuel Johnson Quotes

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Guy
  • Body
  • Kiss

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
  • Write

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• 'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Tree

• The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• It is important to work. It is important for my mind.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Work
  • Important
  • Mind

• Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Together
  • Help
  • Support

• I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Believe
  • Health

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure