Samuel Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love to cook. I could never give that up.
-
Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
-
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
-
It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
-
I enjoy building more than managing.
-
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
-
You mustn't upstage the bride.
-
As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
-
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
-
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
-
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
-
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
-
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
-
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
-
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
-
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
-
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
-
The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.
-
Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.
-
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.
-
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
-
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
-
Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
