Johannessen Quotes

#1. Can a book make such a difference? Can it change you utterly?

I know it can.

(First essay from The Book That Changed My Life, edited by Roxanne J. Coady & Joy Johannessen)

Dorothy Allison

#2. with neatly curved tusks either side of its long trunk, which was rested on the riverbank.

Permdeep Singh Dhadda

#3. Give me inspiration over information.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#4. Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

Bing Gordon

#5. For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.

Robert P. Jones

#6. I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite ... bonding with him, in a weird way.

Teddy Thompson

#7. First of all, I don't see America having problems.

George W. Bush

#8. You wanna party? It's $500 for kissing and $10,000 for snuggling. End of list.

LIZ

#9. To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

Terry Pratchett

#11. It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

Pope John Paul II

#12. I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

George Benson

#13. The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#14. Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
It was a dream I had last week
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem
But I love the title.

Wendy Cope

#15. Obviousl, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Kevin Bacon

#16. To walk an endless road

Me