Samuel Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Twitter should ban my mother.
-
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't 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.
-
I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
-
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.'
-
I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
-
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.
-
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
-
It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
-
Give peace a chance.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
-
'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
-
On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
-
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
-
Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.
-
We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
-
A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.
-
I believe that once people really grasp what is at stake for their health and their lives, and for the health and lives of their children, they will do everything in their power to protect the living world.
-
Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
-
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
