Top 100 Johnston Quotes
#1. I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
Charlie Daniels
#2. I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.
Trevor Horn
#3. If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston
Richard Puz
#4. The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
Al Kooper
#5. Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
Eddie Vedder
#6. I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.
Toby Jones
#7. What's wrong with being naked?
Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston
Zeena Schreck
#8. Remember," Mr. Johnston says, "nothing is exactly as it appears. The closer you look, the more you see.
Aaron Hartzler
#9. This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky ... Johnston is an excellent writer. You want to set this one down so you can take a breath, and keep reading
all at the same time.
Alan Cheuse
#10. Just you wait, Abby Johnston. My coolness will hit you like a tsunami. You will be carried along by its raging power. You will be turned into a freaking icicle by the frostiness of my cool.
Sarah Darer Littman
#11. No, Mr. Johnston doesn't have a horse, nor has he ever ridden one. What kind of a cowboy is he?
Thanhha Lai
#12. In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.
Alice Sebold
#13. I'm a big supporter of Joe Johnston and I think that 'Captain America' is going to be really fun and I gather that the story is really interesting. It just wasn't what I wanted to do next, to be honest.
Emily Blunt
#14. Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
Michael Crichton
#15. There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix.
Jeffrey Lewis
#16. The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the Johnston Atoll, 825 miles southwest of Hawaii, in November 2000.
Barton Gellman
#17. If you read Scarlett Avery, you know it's an awesome read! - Mary Johnston
Scarlett Avery
#18. Anything you want to be, you can come be that with us. Rain or shine, no problem. It's what Mr. and Mrs. Johnston used to say to me after Mom died.
Kathleen Hale
#20. Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
Annie Dillard
#21. Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
Mark Linkous
#22. I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.
Daniel Simon
#23. May God teach us to enjoy serving others as a sign of our love for Him. - Pat Stockett Johnston -
Gary Chapman
#24. Most sketch aficionados have an enormous amount of respect for 'Mr. Show.' I didn't have HBO back then, so I was always trying to find episodes. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross became celebrities, and Jay Johnston - who's lesser known, but brilliant - deserves a lot of credit, too.
Nick Swardson
#26. Like most girls she had been brought up on the warm milk prepared by Annie Fellows Johnston and on novels in which the female was beloved because of certain mysterious womanly qualities, always mentioned but never displayed.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#27. Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.
Mike Love
#28. The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.
Lynn Johnston
#29. Long after everyone else has given up and gone home and gotten on with their lives, he would keep on believing because, without evidence, you could never kill his belief.
Tim Johnston
#30. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston
#32. Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.
Bruce Johnston
#33. A dragon eating a bear?" Emily said. "Why are there no Internet videos of that?
E.K. Johnston
#34. My kind do not spend their days at craft or art. Our deepest desire is not for the making of a thing, nor for the thing itself. Rather, we thrive on the skills of those who make. We steal that time and that power, and we turn it to our own souls, and that is how we grow.
E.K. Johnston
#35. The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
Eric Johnston
#36. Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night ... Without the satisfaction.
Lynn Johnston
#37. Evil is like a Vampire. When you take arms against it and destroy it, you find in the end that you are evil too-that it is living on your own actions.
Denis Johnston
#38. I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.
Bruce Johnston
#39. Of course, for a seaman, next to being actually at sea, the greatest enjoyment comes from preparing the boat for a voyage.
Robin Knox-Johnston
#41. I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.
Ollie Johnston
#42. For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
Daniel Johnston
#43. I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.
E.K. Johnston
#44. A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Mo Johnston
#45. Do you want to attend to this book or do you want to read by yourself?" The student responded, "Read by myself.
Peter H. Johnston
#46. I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
Lynn Johnston
#47. Memories and magic is what Christmas is all about.
Lynn Johnston
#49. May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?
Kristen Johnston
#50. At some point it dawned on me that I might actually be in big, big trouble. The thought was immediately followed by the staggering realization that despite years of slowly killing myself, all I wanted, with more passion and ferocity than I'd ever wanted anything else in my entire life, was to live.
Kristen Johnston
#51. In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.
Kristen Johnston
#52. If you are clever and you are good, the monster will not have you.
You should not believe everything you hear.
Good men fall to monsters everyday. Clever men are tricked by their own pride or by pretty words.
E.K. Johnston
#53. The old saying is true: "We are saved by faith alone, but saving faith is never alone." If you belong to God, you will persevere in doing good. You will not be perfect, but you will persevere with patience.
James Johnston
#54. Discouragement is the anesthetic the devil uses on a person just before he reaches in and carves out his heart.
Ray Johnston
#55. Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.
Lynn Johnston
#56. You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.
Bruce Johnston
#57. You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a ... very brutal disciplinarian.
Lynn Johnston
#58. I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.
Joe Johnston
#59. I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.
Craig Johnston
#60. Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.
Jennifer Johnston
#61. Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...
Megan S. Johnston
#62. Of course, if I were dead, they could just bury me, and move on. Broken is harder to deal with.
E.K. Johnston
#64. I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.
Freedy Johnston
#65. That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#66. I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.
Kristen Johnston
#68. Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
Lynn Johnston
#69. And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
Eric Johnston
#70. I didn't used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I've always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.
E.K. Johnston
#71. Casting Captain America is really casting two roles ... Steve Rogers before and after the transformation from 98 pound weakling to perfect physical specimen. I can't divulge how we're going to do it, but the performance will be Chris Evans from beginning to end.
Joe Johnston
#72. Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.
Tracy Johnston
#73. All things die not: while the soul lives, love lives: the song may be now gay, now plaintive, but it is deathless.
Mary Johnston
#74. I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.
Daniel Johnston
#75. The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.
Bret Anthony Johnston
#76. If you tell the story you will live the story. If you live the story you have to own the story. If you dont like the story your living, stop telling it.
Virginia Johnston-Dodds
#77. We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract ... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
Bruce Johnston
#78. Records ... a record just shouldn't be that important.
Bruce Johnston
#79. We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing!
Lynn Johnston
#80. It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.
Jill Johnston
#82. That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.
Lynn Johnston
#83. I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.
Daniel Johnston
#84. I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
Bruce Johnston
#85. It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be better. Well I think that we stuck to the game plan. We got shots on net, and just used our power.
Rebecca Johnston
#86. Your genes may be causing your blues! We now know depression runs in families and chemical changes in the brain coincide with clinical depression. Medications, psychotherapy, and other treatments can adjust these changes and chase depression away.
Joni E. Johnston
#88. My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.
Kristen Johnston
#89. When you're shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.
Lynn Johnston
#90. But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.
Kristen Johnston
#91. I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
Lynn Johnston
#92. We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.
Joe Johnston
#93. Cowboys are always leaping from their horses in the movies, and they never get hurt."
"You forgot to roll."
"Oh. I knew I did something wrong.
Joan Johnston
#94. The God of the Bible is a God who specializes in minorities and who works through remnants.
Brian Johnston
#95. And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.
Kristen Johnston
#96. I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.
Lynn Johnston
#98. I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#100. There's a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.
E.K. Johnston
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