Samuel Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
-
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
-
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
-
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
-
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
-
I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
-
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
-
I have never had personal debt and never will.
-
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
-
I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
-
People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
-
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
-
I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
-
My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
-
I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
-
What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
-
I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
-
Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
-
Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
-
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
-
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.
-
The people did not talk about reciprocal concessions but demanded liberties and guarantees, which brought inevitably in many sectors a crueler war than the French would have waged otherwise.
-
Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.
