Samuel Johnson Quotes

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AloneManBornComplainingCrying

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Meghan Daum

FantasyGreyShadesRomanceAnything

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.

Max Stirner

LifeNatureManDeterminedUsMeant

I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.

Sia

WorkMusicCreativePeopleThinking

Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

Tom Felton

New YorkRiverPeopleNewLast

You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.

Rosie Perez

YouBornKnowPuerto RicoMayRican

I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.

Lucinda Williams

LifeMemoriesIdeasEverydayAlways

People write to me all the time, and I write back.

Lisa See

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A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives.

Jose Antonio Vargas

BrokenImmigrationSystemMeans

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

Dexter Filkins

TimeAmericanYouWillGrayTell

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Doris Lessing

BuildingsFindOutAffectUsWould

Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.

David Shields

WorkYouArtistKnowCutWriter

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

David Suchet

NatureDeathPeopleThinkReality

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