Samuel Johnson Quotes

He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

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• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Hard Work

• I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Fight
  • Stand

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Way
  • Hide

• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Up
  • Love
  • Parents

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • People
  • World
  • Enemy

• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Values

• He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Moral