J. J. Johnson Quotes

Freedom is not enough.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.

History seems to be so clumsy.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

I know talent when I see it. I know frauds when I see 'em. I know players that can play and can't play.

Don't get bitter, just get better.

Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

We are often able because we think we are able.

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

I like dogs, but I have more respect for cats.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch.

Security will produce danger.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!