Samuel Johnson Quotes

The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Samuel Johnson

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• Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Problems
  • Process

• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Long
  • Boy
  • Progress

• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You
  • Percent
  • Invisible

• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Because
  • Table

• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Live
  • Happy

• I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Country
  • Home
  • Tired

• I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Together

• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • End
  • President
  • Arts

• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Love
  • Big
  • Crowd

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Love
  • Friendship

• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Love
  • Character
  • Me

• I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Play
  • Find

• In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.

  

  John P. Kotter
  • World
  • Growing

• I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Life
  • Time
  • Growing

• I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.

  

  Melissa De Sousa
  • Growing
  • Always
  • Introvert

• The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Growing