Samuel Johnson Quotes

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Samuel Johnson

Quotes to Explore

In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

Garrett Neff
- College
- Beginning
- Summer
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

Karl Pilkington
- People
- Different
- Book
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

Madchen Amick
- Time
- Character
- Movie
When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

Sam Trammell
- School
- American
- High
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Walter Gropius
- Life
- Society
- Design