B.S. Johnson Quotes

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

Security will produce danger.

Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

We are often able because we think we are able.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.

Don't get bitter, just get better.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Love is only one of many passions.

To a poet nothing can be useless.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.