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Samuel Johnson Quotes

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Topics

Travel Better Learn Enjoy Improve

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater

Poetry True Personal Emotion Real

As far as favorite tunes, 'You Know You Know' is one, and why it is important is difficult to say. The rhythmic cycle is very interesting and challenging to play, since it can be considered three bars of 4/4 or four bars of 3/4. 'The Dance of Maya' is another, and I have to mention 'Sanctuary.'

John McLaughlin

Dance Interesting You Play Know Say

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

Robert Gottlieb

Music Romantic Moments Piano Strings

If you can have a really good coaching staff, and you can have a really good young quarterback and do a really good job in player personnel and string together multiple successful drafts, your window is not small in the NFL because of the quarterback.

Jeffrey Lurie

Good Together Job Window Small You

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.

Michael Chabon

Me Way Unusual Interested Joe

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Tom Cruise

Person Kind Become Something Give

I look to James Franco with complete admiration. He makes interesting choices. Whether right or wrong, that is up to someone else to decide, but I think what he does is brilliant.

Tom Cullen

Choices Think Interesting Someone Up

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

Robert Zemeckis

Change Tree Clouds Color Doing You

I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Time Me Drive Remember House Down

Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.

Jean Alesi

Today I Am Me Because Found Jordan

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Jonathan Sacks

Freedom Tyranny New Oppression Ruler

'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are trying. Those kinds of games are interesting. Rumor has it he was making $50,000 a day just from advertising, which is great, especially given the cost of living in Vietnam.

Chris DeWolfe

Great Bird Day Advertising Trying