Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
George Bernard Shaw
Norman Cousins
Anne Frank
William Inge
Albert Einstein
Nathaniel Hawthorne
All authors
Today's birthdays
1743 - Thomas Jefferson
1906 - Samuel Beckett
1949 - Christopher Hitchens
1951 - Max Weinberg
1978 - Sylvie Meis
1962 - Chris Riddell
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Cartoonist
Architect
Author
Saint
Astronaut
Businesswoman
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Samuel Quotes
Samuel Quotes
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
Alistair Horne
War
World
Whatever
Interview
Rank
Visionary
Harvard
Status
Lieutenant
Given
Write
He
Most
Commander
Historian
Account
Official
Committed
Anyone
After
Samuel
Act
Harbor
Navy
Right
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Appointed
World War
World War II
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.
Arthur Smith
Myself
Walk
Typical
Following
Poets
Since
Days
Footsteps
Perhaps
Although
Prototype
Cover
Were
Often
Romantic
Samuel
Might
Found
Last
Two
Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
Bill Buford
Real Estate
Given
Park
Developer
Real
Years
Years Ago
Perpetuity
Surrounding
Square
Estate
Samuel
Means
Residents
Quite naturally, the men who led in stirring up the revolt against Great Britain and in keeping the fighting temper of the Revolutionists at the proper heat were the boldest and most radical thinkers - men like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson.
Charles A. Beard
Great
Men
Fighting
Radical
Great Britain
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Temper
Proper
Like
Most
Were
Led
Stirring
Up
Revolt
Heat
Quite
Samuel
Against
Paine
Naturally
Who
Jefferson
Boldest
Henry
Keeping
Thinkers
Britain
For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life!
Daniel Rigby
Life
Man
Past
Wig
Some
Obsessed
Period
Read
Got
His
Diaries
Past Life
Samuel
Them
Really
Reason
Coat
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
David McCullough
Life
People
College
Back
Pleasures
Those
Johnson
Had
Read
Courses
Go
Infinite
Samuel
Them
Pope
English
Swift
Now
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 when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
David Miliband
Wife
Later
Ring
Finger
Wedding
Wedding Ring
Brussels
Never
He
Knew
Bought
Until
Him
His
Years
Aunt
Hand
Left
Louise
Died
Samuel
Placed
Grandfather
Kept
Samuel L. Jackson is such a riot. He's so incredibly normal, and he's a blast to be around. I can't even describe to you how he's just sort of everybody's crazy uncle.
Dove Cameron
Crazy
You
Uncle
Everybody
Incredibly
Riot
Blast
He
Sort
Around
How
Normal
Jackson
Just
Samuel
Describe
Even
In 1984, Jim Koch used his family's lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest 'craft' brewer in the country. He brews Samuel Adams, a rich lager named after the American revolutionary that comes with the tagline, 'Take pride in your beer.'
Elizabeth Flock
Family
Beer
Pride
Country
Become
Rich
Recipe
Jim
Boston
Take
He
Since
Named
His
Revolutionary
American
Craft
After
Samuel
Which
Your
Used
Company
Largest
Start
I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.
Grant Show
School
High
High School
Samuel
Which
Now
Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
Ice Cube
Only
Step
Mere
Mortals
Jackson
Movie
Samuel
Movie Set
Us
Next
Set
I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.
James Cronin
Physics
Direction
Allison
Did
Experimental
Samuel
Thesis
Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.
Jaron Lanier
Facebook
Generation
People
Seen
Before
Submission
Mark
Mark Twain
Able
About
Had
Road
Adventure
Became
Always
Been
Selves
Jack
America
Forget
American
Forgetting
Samuel
Former
Page
Standardization
Twain
Shows
If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of Strangers' by Frank Huyler, both have themes of cynicism and dysfunction running through them that you won't find in 'ER.' You find it in 'Scrubs,' but because that's a comedy, it gets away with it.
Jed Mercurio
God
You
Comedy
Doctors
Strangers
Frank
Running
Find
Both
Through
Written
Like
Look
House
Because
Blood
American
Gets
Fiction
Samuel
Dysfunction
Them
Scrub
Themes
Cynicism
Away
Medical
I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.
Joel Kinnaman
Love
Me
Game
Jackson
Anything
Samuel
Gary
Gary Oldman
Watching
Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.
Joel Siegel
Best
Jackson
Samuel
Actor
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
John Cameron Mitchell
Abyss
Playwright
Favorite
Laughing
He
Beckett
Always
Samuel
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
John Lahr
Time
Waiting
Wait
Father
Made
Vain
Laugh
Beckett
Pass
Continents
Arrival
Miami
Debut
American
Sensation
Samuel
Landscape
Who
Grove
Coconut
Florida
Playing
Two
As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.
Joshua Bell
Life
World
Life Is Short
Meet
Everything
Red
Stuff
Concerned
Because
Got
Go
Normally
Did
Jackson
Short
Want
As Far As
Samuel
Far
Film
Oscars
Violin
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 commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
Julius Wellhausen
Age
Assumed
Books
Thorough
Kings
More
Towards
Judges
Undertaken
Condemns
Exile
End
Revision
Than
Samuel
Commonly
Much
Whole
I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I could do another movie like I did in 'The Killing Game,' with Samuel L. Jackson, that would be awesome.
Kellan Lutz
Game
Training
Awesome
Back
Would
Would-Be
Martial
Martial Arts
Guy
Could
Like
Another
Mixed
Been
Did
Jackson
Arts
Movie
Samuel
If I Could
Much
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Natalie Babbitt
Christopher
Our
Spent
Married
Administrator
Ten
Ten Years
Tennessee
Academic
Fisher
Years
Graduation
Children
After
Samuel
Next
Connecticut
Tom
Washington
Lucy
Right
Raising
Samuel Eto'o I know well. We see each other often; we send each other messages, and we call each other. It's good.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Good
Other
See
Know
Messages
Well
Call
Send
Often
Samuel
Each
I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
Tamora Pierce
You
People
Writing
School
Books
See
Take
Message
Messages
Call
Western
Send
Any
Samuel
Them
Union
Away
Need
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
Tavi Gevinson
Game
Heroes
Cindy
Kids
Around
Were
Samuel
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Novel
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
Val Kilmer
Great
First
Saw
Beckett
Samuel
Which
Play
Load more quotes
No more samuel quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Best
Economy
American
Coach