Lonnie George Johnson Quotes

#1. I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

Diplo

#2. As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

#3. I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

Booker T. Washington

#4. We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

Josh Billings

#5. Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Akhil Sharma

#6. I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see.

Nina LaCour

#7. It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows.

Peter Funt

#8. The Camaro was like Gansey tonight: terrifying and thrilling, willing to do whatever she asked.

Maggie Stiefvater