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I am an authority on gospel, and they don't have nothing like me and no gospel song at Carnegie Hall.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about authority, nothing

When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about rest, nothing, contentment

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

Quote by Billy Joel about sex, bad luck, bad, nothing, good, good luck

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

Quote by Elton John about sex, bad, nothing, people

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, good, good luck

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about purity, nothing, man

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing, man

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about change, wish, state, happiness, nothing, life

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about home, house, happiness, nothing, good, good luck, man, people

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence, reason, woman, thinking, nothing, life

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wine, nothing, man

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Quote by Don Johnson about nothing, contentment

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Quote by Don Johnson about drugs, failure, affair, contentment, nothing, people

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

Quote by Tommy Lee Jones about army, patriotism, americans, common sense, nothing, things

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Quote by Franz Kafka about nothing, love

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Quote by Jim Bishop about future, old, olderness, nothing, face

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about opinion, nothing, man