B.S. Johnson Quotes

It is just awesome, there’s no other way to describe it. To be the first to win in a Gen-6 car … I’m just very proud of the moment.

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.

We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out.

You watch guys live through their peaks, and then unfortunately, you've got to come down from that peak.

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

I swam in high school.

When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Applause abates diligence.

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.

You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.

As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

With the right to vote, our choice should be for the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Every child in America deserves high-quality health care.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

Corporate greed is killing America, and that's what we battling at Boeing.

There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

The business of life is to go forward.

If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Liberty is not enough.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.