J. J. Johnson Quotes

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.

When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.

When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.

Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them to the Internet is just a hobby.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

It's almost like we have ESPN.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

We must open the doors of opportunity.

I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.