Samuel Johnson Quotes

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Samuel Johnson

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Good
  • Day

• Twitter should ban my mother.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Twitter

• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Black
  • Individual
  • White

• I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Person
  • Living
  • Reputation

• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Lost

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • War
  • Man
  • Mankind

• It's really important that folks be able to speak out.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Speak
  • Out

• Give peace a chance.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Chance
  • Give

• We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Want
  • Ourselves

• My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

  

  T-Pain
  • Bad
  • You
  • Me

• I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Happy
  • Sparkle
  • Disco

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Free
  • Party

• The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• Now, just -- just a few minutes ago, you heard Manager Gekas talk to you about perjury, ... And probably 90 percent of what he talked to you about was perjury in the (Paula) Jones case. It appears to make no difference, though, that the House rejected this charge, for the managers do continue to dwell on it, as though somehow they could show the House from which they came that they'd made a mistake.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • House
  • Mistake
  • Charge

• Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Rock
  • Early

• People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Hollywood

• In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Literature

• The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.

  

  Ziauddin Sardar
  • Desire
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

  

  Samuel Johnson