Samuel Johnson Quotes

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

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• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Character
  • Think

• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

  

  Gary Webb
  • Life
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Past
  • Present

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Education
  • Religious
  • Special

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Black
  • Too Much

• I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Die
  • City

• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Word
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Man
  • Say

• Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Work
  • Artists
  • Response

• Its time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Needs
  • Drug
  • Safe

• Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen.

  

  Kealan Patrick Burke
  • Thinking
  • Human
  • Horror

• I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Character
  • Comedy

• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Library
  • Vanity