Samuel Quotes
96 quotes by 72 authors
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
— Fred Allen
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If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite…
— William Johnson Sollas
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Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day
— Clive Tyldesley
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On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.
— Eugene Mirman
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Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and…
— David Plotz
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my…
— Harold Pinter
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We ... tend to evaluate others on the basis of physical, outward appearance: their "good looks," their social status, their family pedigrees, their degrees, or…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy…
— Michael Josephson
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In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was…
— Robert Aickman
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I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his…
— Bill Bryson
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Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or Samuel Goldwyn-- but…
— Marion Meade
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Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.
— Stefan Halper
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The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died…
— David Miliband
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?
— Jose Mourinho
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The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is…
— Julius Wellhausen
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[God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an old…
— John Cassian
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If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.
— Martin Scorsese
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
— Val Kilmer
Who Wrote These Samuel Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 96 Samuel Quotes, led by these top contributors: