Samuel Johnson Quotes

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Nature
  • Very
  • Greek

• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • Inspired
  • Creative
  • Disney

• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • War
  • Say
  • Japanese

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Appreciation

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

  K. Flay
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Development
  • Advertising

• I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Language

• No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Doubt
  • inspirational
  • Grace

• Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Truth
  • Speak
  • Afterwards

• Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• My brothers, They never went blind for what they did, but I may as well have. In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son, I had one more stupid question.

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • May
  • Father
  • Question

• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Know
  • Eye