Samuel Johnson Quotes

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

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• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Serious

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Thought
  • Deserve
  • Plans

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Story
  • Modern
  • Myth

• I don't like to talk about my personal life, so I will not talk about others. I don't give advice. I give advice to only my mother, father, and brother on health.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Every now and then I get a little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by. Turn around Every now and then I get a little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes.Turn around bright eyes. Every now and then I fall apart.

  

  Jim Steinman
  • Eyes
  • Fall

• I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Drink

• I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Age