Samuel Johnson Quotes
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
Saint Ambrose
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little
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Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.
William Fichtner
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
Marianne Williamson
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis
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I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.
Ezra Furman
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Reality doesn't interest me.
Leni Riefenstahl
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
