J. J. Johnson Quotes

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

I think if you expect it to do well, you come off a little bit cocky.

I try not to keep my head in the clouds .

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down.

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Know how blessed you are to be able to work this hard!

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.

You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.

Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

I can never again see a UNITED STATES MARINE without experiencing a feeling of reverence.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.

The most important things in your home are people.

I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.