Johnson Quotes

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

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.

[Magic] Johnson is seriously remarkable, in terms of what he has accomplished in his profession and outside of his profession as well.

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

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

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Rough Johnson, the great moralist.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). What do I do now? I guess I'll have to get a second job.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

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

Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

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.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.

The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

Great news for Pres Obama. He watched football all weekend and tomorrow he will receive the Heisman trophy. Next week he's going to watch NASCAR. Move over, Jimmie Johnson!

What does Everton chairman Bill Kenwright think he will get for £6m? Andy Johnson's trainers?

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel Kilcher, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.