Samuel Johnson Quotes
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Quotes to Explore
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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I don't like dirty. That's why I hate cigarettes. A little bit of alcohol is O.K., but no drugs. And I like to sleep alone because I wake up, I walk around, I bring my computer with me to bed, I have a great time.
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I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
