Samuel Johnson Quotes

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Samuel Johnson

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• Proud
• Happiness

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• I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• I started at the top and worked my way down.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Way
  • Down
  • Top

• Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Song
  • Know
  • Tired

• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Art
  • Energy

• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Chance

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Son

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Life
  • Funny
  • My Life

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
  • Trash
  • Predictions

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Smart

• Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • Family
  • She
  • Friends

• It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • World
  • Live
  • Question

• Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Man
  • Black
  • Picture

• We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Proud
  • Air
  • I Love

• Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Proud