C. R. Johnson Quotes
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards.
How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.
This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.
If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard
All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.
Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn
God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
