Samuel Johnson Quotes

PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

Samuel Johnson

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• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Actor
  • First
  • Trained

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Car
  • Hurt

• I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Face

• I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Man
  • Past
  • Cool

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Liberal

• Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • War
  • New

• Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • TV

• My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Father
  • Soul
  • Small

• It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Business
  • Genius

• Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Wake Up

• I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • First
  • Grateful
  • Veterans

• Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Best
  • Young
  • West

• With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Tennis

• The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • People

• Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Mistake
  • Lessons
  • Second Chance

• Why are they people more likely to listen to people who tell them they can't make changes than they are to people who tell them they can?

  

  Donella Meadows
  • People
  • Why

• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Children
  • Greatness
  • Strength

• PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

  

  Samuel Johnson