Samuel Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Dana Rohrabacher -
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Yelawolf -
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova -
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
Nate Silver
-
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta -
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
Lasse Hallstrom -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
Madeline Zima
-
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale -
I look formidable.
Vin Diesel -
No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
Adam Draper -
I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
Nancy Pickard -
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller
-
See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
Ole Hallesby -
Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
Pir Vilayat Khan -
It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer -
He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
Plutarch -
All this wealth excludes but one evil,-poverty.
Samuel Johnson