Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes

#1. And if that is the Foremast, what do you think that sail might be called, Mr. Wheeler?"
"The Foresail?"
"Very good, Mr. Wheeler, and the next one up would be called ... "
... "The Next Sail, Sir?"
"Alas, no, Mr. Wheeler.

L.A. Meyer

#2. He drops the pistol into the right-hand pocket of his raincoat. He is not expecting trouble. Nevertheless, he goes nowhere unarmed. One can never be too careful. Besides, opportunities often arise unexpectedly. In

Dean Koontz

#3. One day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.

James K. Morrow

#4. Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory's storage center with useful data and the ceaseless expurgation of undesirable facts, exfoliation of destructive thoughts, and weeding out annoying emotional quirks that seemingly sprout out of thin air.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over.

Herbert Mitgang

#6. You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.

Morten Tyldum

#7. I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware ... Beware ...

Anne Sexton

#8. You have to look closely
To see that it is pretty
You have to look long
To see that it is lovable
You are the same

Na Taejoo

#9. Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Alan Jackson

#10. [I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

Steve Hagen

#11. You know, a man ain't worth a damn if he can't cry at the right time.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

#12. It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. When Jesus enters a place revival fire begins.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they saw that there were so many black people there waiting to board and so therefore those people wouldn't get to leave.

Isabel Wilkerson

#15. You have to lose everything to find the real thing.

Debasish Mridha

#16. He didn't love me," I murmur to the dirt. "I was just a means to an end."
Klo's grasp slips from my arm and I feel the blood rushing back to my fingers.Anger flashes on his face but it's quickly replaced by a sad, withering smile. "That's the most cowardly thing you've said yet.

Jessica Brody

#17. The 1960s:
A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

Richard Brautigan

#18. There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Napoleon Hill