Ben Johnson Quotes

#1. Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago, and we'd sit around at night while waiting for a shot.

Bill Paxton

#2. I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Ben Harper

#3. The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

Ben Johnson

#4. I sort of lean back into him. Like I'm melting into him. And in that instant, I finally know what it feels like to be whole. I've been wishing for my life to get better. Now I realize that James can take me to a place where everything's the way it should be. He can definitely take me there.

Susane Colasanti

#5. Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

Ben Johnson

#6. Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

Oswald Chambers

#7. Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.

Ben Johnson

#8. You might notice I refer to my son Ben as Ben Young all the time. Larry (Johnson) always called his son Ben Johnson. I liked the pride with which he would say "Ben Johnson." It is a lingering memory of his great spirit.

Neil Young

#9. God does not choose the arrogant for his will. He chooses the humble. The least likely.

Morgan Rice

#10. The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Tammin Sursok

#11. Ben Franklin and Samuel Johnson, he credits their wisdom for his success. "They were both utterly brilliant men. And powerful communicators. Both have helped me all the way through life. Their lessons are easy to assimilate."

Charlie Munger

#12. He who partakes the honor, should participate in the labor.

Ben Johnson

#13. We tried to do a show once every three weeks to a month. We'd always do a new show. It was not successful. It did not become the Matt & Ben show, but it taught me what I like to do as an actor and what I like to do comedically.

Jake M. Johnson

#14. A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Ben Johnson

#15. I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Ben Johnson

#16. Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Sophocles

#17. Like all pacifists, Zweig evaded the question of how to protect the peaceful sheep from the ravening wolves, no doubt in the unrealistic hope that the wolves would one day discover the advantages of vegetarianism.

Theodore Dalrymple