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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Knowledge Great Curiosity Leisure

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Jennifer Damiano

Beautiful Next Years Most Beautiful

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

World Literature Despair Salvation

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Life Character Light Darkness You

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

Small Fighting Artist Everything Cog

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

Life Music Me My Life Young Escape

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Innovation Stock Market Values Market

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Book Story You Consequences Never

I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.

Life Walk Day People Looking End

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Me Doing Career Everyone Well Any

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Claudio Monteverdi

Good Music Soul End Affect

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Road Drunk More Bar Just One Just

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true.

Beautiful True Attractive Youthful

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