J. J. Johnson Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Transformed people transform cities.

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

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.

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

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

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.

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

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

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.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

I strive on pressure.

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Life doesnt stop because something happens to you.