J. J. Johnson Quotes

I was able to get through the field and get this Lowe's ProServices Chevy up front. Those last few restarts I was able to hang on and duke it out with those guys and get a nice, top-three finish.

The Daytona 500 is a career-winning race. It defines careers for drivers, crew members, crew chiefs and race teams. It has that power.

The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.

I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.

I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team.

I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

Dreaming the dream of God is not for Cowards.

The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!

in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

The things we felt most are hardest to put into words. Hate is always easier to speak of than love. How shall I make love go through the sieve of words and come out something besides a pulp?

You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.

From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

At the end of the day, all I want to do is protect my kids.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality.

Sombre and rich, the skies; Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns.

Yet, when the city sleeps; When all the cries are still: The stars and heavenly deeps Work out a perfect will.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

You know there is no one in the world I would rather sleep with than Yuki.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.