Samuel Johnson Quotes

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeSuccessStepSeeingWishesNew

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Joan Didion

LiveTellOrderStoriesOurselves

The musicians in the band, and myself as a performer, love the risks of the unpredictable and the feeling of jumping off cliffs musically.

Jenny Scheinman

LoveMyselfRisksMusiciansFeeling

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

John Lasseter

StupidThinkYouSomething

I do think 'The Notebook' is a darn good movie.

Matt Lanter

GoodThinkGood MovieNotebookMovie

Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.

Steven Berkoff

RacismBlackYouPlayNowKind

There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.

Shonda Rhimes

WomenWomanMeLookFindWant

Every Monday night, there was a scary movie on Spanish TV, so my parents used to send me to bed. I remember lying there, listening to the TV, and imagining the movie in my head. And so probably the scariest movies I ever saw in my life were the ones I imagined.

Juan Antonio Bayona

LifeMondayParentsMeListening

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

David Shields

LifeLoveInvestigationEssayIdea

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Chen Shui-bian

ArroganceBehaviorMustIrrational

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

Chris Matthews

TerrorismEnemiesIsraelBetween

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Corey Taylor

PeopleKnowFansMetalSmartest

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Aristotle

LanguageSpeechPersuasionThree

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