J. J. Johnson Quotes

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.

I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

Transformed people transform cities.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

Maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own. Just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

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.

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.

You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

When I did 'The Social Network,' David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

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

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.