J. J. Johnson Quotes

I think the sexiest thing is a hat. It's very sexy!

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet.

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

I'm a big believer in dreaming. If you don't dream it, you can't become it.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

True feelings never fade, we just learn to fill the spot.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

The money is of no concern to me, whatsoever. I started out with nothing.

I'm gonna stick your head so far up your *ss your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.