Fred Johnson Quotes

#1. Gradually I saw that it was less interesting for me, as an artist, to frame the world wholly according to my own perceptions. I wanted instead to create situations in which I allowed others' perceptions to surface with my own.

Wendy Ewald

#2. The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

John Stott

#3. Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

Harold Sherman

#4. Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. Everyone chats and smiles, chats about nothing, shouts and drinks themselves silly occasionally or all the time. They they die one fine day, old or young, they die, tucked up into the earth. That's what it's like. Swarming lives, with no meaning, no number.

Erik Fosnes Hansen

#6. There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

Mark Kozelek

#7. I'm less interested in slasher, and go more for roles that can affect you on a personal level. I'm interested in human empathy in the movies I see, and in the ones I am a part of.

Joshua Leonard

#8. It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.

John Prendergast

#9. Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

Will Rogers

#10. On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' ... Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.

William Safire

#11. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

#12. During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Fred Allen

#13. What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

J. Gresham Machen

#14. I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

Barbara Mandrell

#15. I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

Nikki Glaser

#16. I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

Billy Bob Thornton

#17. The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

Richard Henry Pratt