Fallen Angels Johnson Quotes

#1. I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Ruth Ozeki

#2. You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

Elvis Costello

#3. O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

Phoebe Cary

#4. How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

Brad Warner

#5. I find it very annoying when people want to sit next to each other at a booth.

Chelsea Handler

#6. There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. Hippocrates can be justifiably regarded as the father of Western medicine, and he stands in relation to this science as Aristotle does to physics. Which is to say, he was almost entirely wrong, but he was at least systematic.

Philip Ball

#8. Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.

Tim Ryan

#9. The last few years have been pretty hectic.

Frank Langella

#10. If U.S. schools don't prepare American children for careers in the surveillance industry, all our spying will be done from India.

U.S. Dept. Of Fear

#11. It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. Insist that the first question each of us asks, isn't 'what's good for me' but 'what's good for the country my children will inherit'

Barack Obama

#13. Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Wallace Stevens

#14. A free people ought ... to be armed

George Washington

#15. We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.

Lynn Coady