Johnson Quotes - Page 9

• Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Book, Men, Talking

  Marvin Mudrick (1979). “Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

  Tobias Smollett

  Literature

  Letter to John Wilkes, 16 Mar. 1759

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.

  Jennifer Garner

  Home, Care, Firsts

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• Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.694, Delphi Classics

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• I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

  Jonah Hill

  Hero, Ice, Magic

  "Jonah Hill And Channing Tatum 21 Jump Street Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

  Jesse Jackson

  Voice, People, President

  "Jesse Jackson on Obama 'Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. August 08, 2011.

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• The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

  Paul Theroux

  Peace, Maturity, Drag

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Book, Devil

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.25, Baker Books

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• Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

  John Paxson

  Funny, Basketball, Player

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• I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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• Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced...However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950's. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Two, Drs

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• The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ice Cream, Sea

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• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Japan, People

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• Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

  Russell Westbrook

  Growing Up, Player, Magic

  "All Bold Everything: A GQ+A With Russell Westbrook". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

  Lydia Davis

  Scotland, Tree, Indignant

  Lydia Davis (2002). “Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

  Hisham Matar

  Men, Justice, Doubt

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• A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Morning, Thinking, Poetry

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• ...Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.

  Lenny Bruce

  Country, Government, People

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• Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Years, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

  Alonso Duralde

  Strong, Hero, Fighting

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• He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

  Casey Stengel

  New York, Team, Poverty

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• It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.

  Johan Santana

  Games, Wonderful, All The Best

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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• Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

  Benjamin Booker

  Stuff I Like, Influence, Vulnerable

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