J. J. Johnson Quotes

Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That's what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

Home is wherever we are if there's love here too

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off.

Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Language is the dress of thought.

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

The difference in a teacher and a mentor is that a mentor is interested in our soul.

I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

No man was ever great by imitation.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.