J. J. Johnson Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It's almost like we have ESPN.

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

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

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

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

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.

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

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

You wanna do this...you wanna go right now...do you want to, GO?...then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you.

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.