Top 100 Johansen Quotes
#1. In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
David Johansen
#2. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
Lauren Willig
#3. I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.
Iris Johansen
#4. How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it ... And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this. Garrett
Iris Johansen
#5. Children conceived by this woman would only be cannibalized by her womb.
Erika Johansen
#7. Tell me, Mrs. Mayhew, have you ever dreamed of a better world?" "Who hasn't?" "Anyone who profits by keeping the world as it is.
Erika Johansen
#8. A church was only as good or bad as the philosophy that emanated from the pulpit.
Erika Johansen
#9. Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.
Iris Johansen
#10. Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right.
Iris Johansen
#11. And if Tear's words can't be trusted, then who do we listen to? Yourself. The
Erika Johansen
#12. Her old appearance had been genuine, and had gained her nothing. But her new appearance was worse, hollow and false, and anything that she gained by it would carry that falsity like a disease.
Erika Johansen
#13. If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
Iris Johansen
#14. This country is diseased. The fortunate celebrate on the backs of the starving, the ill, the terrorised. The law affords no recourse to the disadvantaged. That's a historical sickness, and there's only one cure.
Erika Johansen
#15. Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
David Johansen
#16. What would I do with billions? I don't need it. Would it make me a better artist?
Iris Johansen
#17. Linux provides programmers with everything they need: libraries, compilers, and debugging/development tools. These features are included in all standard Linux versions.
Andrew Johansen
#18. Humanity would have to work for that society, and work hard, dedicating themselves to an unending vigilance against the mistakes of the past. It
Erika Johansen
#19. Christ, let's go."
"Women shouldn't curse."
"Get fucked.
Erika Johansen
#20. She was unable to keep silent, even when silence would save her trouble or pain.
Erika Johansen
#21. How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?
Iris Johansen
#23. Sometimes I think: if they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. They can build their own town of closed thinking, and live there, and find out later what a shitty place it really is.
Erika Johansen
#24. Lady, if you don't wake up, I'm going to have you baptized.
Erika Johansen
#25. This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.
Erika Johansen
#26. If they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it.
Erika Johansen
#28. I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.
David Johansen
#29. One night she'd stayed up until dawn reading a particularly long novel, and she had been allowed to skip her chores and sleep away most of the next day.
Erika Johansen
#31. Hell? Hell is a fairy tale for the gullible, for what punishment could be worse than that we inflict upon ourselves? We burn so badly in this life that there can be nothing left.
Erika Johansen
#32. I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.
Jon Johansen
#33. There was no quick and easy eradication of evil. There was only the passage of time, of generations, of people raising children who would hold all other lives just as valuable as their own.
Erika Johansen
#34. It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.
David Johansen
#35. I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
Jon Johansen
#36. Learn all the knowledge in the world, but your gut will always know best.
Erika Johansen
#37. I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
David Johansen
#38. She had been ready to kill Da, ready for years, but now she was amazed to find that she had done something even more difficult: she had spoken aloud.
Erika Johansen
#39. I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
Jon Johansen
#40. Her. But I may ask you to let me check it occasionally
Iris Johansen
#41. I see this land flowing with books, Father. Widespread literacy. Books everywhere, as common as they used to be in circulation before the Crossing, affordable even for the poor.
Erika Johansen
#42. Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
Iris Johansen
#43. He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace.
Iris Johansen
#44. I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.
Erika Johansen
#45. Find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're
Iris Johansen
#46. Young people are still looking and older people have found ...
David Johansen
#47. Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
Jon Johansen
#48. So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
Jon Johansen
#49. Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?'
David Johansen
#50. Even I won't defy her. She is terrible."
"Let me tell you a secret, General. I am worse.
Erika Johansen
#51. You know, when you're making a record, you come up with 15, 20 songs. Then they start to fall by the wayside as your interest wanes. It's kind of like a process of elimination to determine which songs wind up on the record.
David Johansen
#52. We have trust, Lady, you and I?"
"I trust you with my life, Andalie.
Erika Johansen
#53. Once in a while, usually when Ewen wasn't even trying, he would solve a mystery, and that was a great and extraordinary feeling, the way he imagined birds would feel as they swooped across the sky.
Erika Johansen
#54. I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be.
Iris Johansen
#55. I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.
David Johansen
#57. Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.
Erika Johansen
#58. Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean.
Erika Johansen
#59. Stories moved Kelsea most, stories of things that never were, stories that transported her beyond the changeless world of the cottage.
Erika Johansen
#61. I'm sober."
"That's not my concern. I know you'll never make that mistake again."
"Then what's your concern?" the younger man asked, his tone aggressive.
"You and her.
Erika Johansen
#62. It's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it.
Iris Johansen
#63. I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
#64. Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.
David Johansen
#65. Whenever she had a problem to consider, she invariably found herself in the library, for it was easier to think when she was surrounded by books.
Erika Johansen
#66. I'll govern for the good of the governed.
I'll make sure every citizen is properly educated and doctored.
I'll cease wasteful spending and ease the burden on the poor through redistribution of land and goods and taxation.
Erika Johansen
#67. I have it. She got into the passenger seat of the security van.
Iris Johansen
#68. We knew that they would probably go after someone.
Jon Johansen
#69. Weakness, all the more dangerous for being combined with a sense of entitlement
Erika Johansen
#70. Said we'll discuss it when I commit." She smoothed the area under the eye crevice. "I wonder who they think it is ... " He watched her for a moment without speaking. "Louisiana in October isn't too unpleasant. We could take
Iris Johansen
#72. My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
David Johansen
#73. As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
David Johansen
#75. They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.
Erika Johansen
#76. When it fails, they do call it madness, Lazarus. But when it succeeds, they call it genius.
Erika Johansen
#77. The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
David Johansen
#78. Love was a real thing, Aisa thought, but secondary. Certainly love was not as real as her sword.
Erika Johansen
#80. My feelings exactly. You should be here with me, not in that compound." "Go away, Joe. I don't want you here." "It's mutual. I'm staying. And Galen insisted on bringing everything from explosives to surveillance equipment so we can set up for the
Iris Johansen
#81. Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Jon Johansen
#82. The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
Iris Johansen
#83. You don't give up on people because they're not what you want them to be. Not if you love them.
Iris Johansen
#84. In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.
Iris Johansen
#85. There's a better world out there, so close we can almost touch it.
Erika Johansen
#86. I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.
David Johansen
#87. You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.
Erika Johansen
#88. Katie preferred honesty, even at the expense of civility. She longed to have everything in the open.
Erika Johansen
#90. But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.
Iris Johansen
#91. I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
David Johansen
#92. This, I think, is the crux of evil in this world, Majesty: those who feel entitled to whatever they want, whatever they can grab. Such people never ask themselves if they have the right. They consider no cost to anyone but themselves.
Erika Johansen
#94. Entire countries would close their borders and build walls to keep out phantom threats. Can you imagine?
Erika Johansen
#95. The wrongs of the past are not less significant, they're just harder to fix. And the longer you ignore them in favor of more pressing issues, the worse the harm, until the problems of the past actually create the problems of the future.
Erika Johansen
#97. Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.
Jon Johansen
#98. You can defend your kingdom, or you can defend your people, Majesty. You don't have the manpower to do both at once."
"People are more important than land.
Erika Johansen
#99. I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened ... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Jon Johansen
#100. Those who cease to worry about their souls often find them difficult to reclaim later
Erika Johansen
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