B.S. Johnson Quotes

I don't like reality TV as far as it being scripted and not being true reality.

I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.

I don't know about one moment that has pivoted my career. I do know that one thing that hit me and made me take a few steps back was a year at Steamboat.

My album was recorded in Nashville. It used to be all about "We're from Texas, forget Nashville," well you'll never hear me say that. Nashville isn't bad as long as you're true to yourself.

Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

Do not lose hope in what the universe has placed you here to do.

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

When you accept the fact you have no control and choose not to take any action, you are letting go.

Change is wonderful, and necessary.

Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Now I know why I am so strange!!

Great success breeds a lot of things, including sequels.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

Well, The Rock says this, you should be concerned with fixing yourself a nice, tall glass of shut-up juice!

It's important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I don't worry about overexposure [in work], I think it's important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.

As long as I can do something that I am passionate about and that I can really enjoy and the audience can enjoy. That is where my enthusiasm comes from.

We all love challenges.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

It's what I've learned over the years that has pushed me beyond limits.

How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.