B.S. Johnson Quotes

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.

Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.

Glibness will get your anywhere.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

You and your heart shouldn't feel so far apart

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

It's an honor to paint cats.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.