Samuel Johnson Quotes

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Samuel Johnson

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• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

  

  Karen Black
  • Week
  • Dead
  • Worked

• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Lying

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

  

  Maluma
  • Think
  • Song
  • Break

• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Child
  • Give
  • Shape

• If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what's considered a traditional family, because I believe that there are different ways to raise children. It's far more effective to raise children in happy homes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Children

• I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

  

  W. Mark Felt
  • Never
  • Information
  • Anyone

• Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Best
  • Characters
  • Sides

• I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great broadcaster.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Great
  • Father

• To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• We could be like a father determined to provide everything for his family. He devotes every energy to that end and succeeds; only then does he discover that what they needed most, to be together as a family, has been neglected. And he reaps sorrow in place of contentment.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Family
  • Father
  • Energy

• If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Breathe
  • Revenge

• That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Father