J. J. Johnson Quotes
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.
Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.
You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.
