Johnny Rivers Quotes

I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

Johnny Rivers

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Always
  • Everything
  • Barber

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Star

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Book
  • Think

• Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Movies
  • Try

• I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Equality

• The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Free

• Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Credit
  • Apple

• pp. 7-8

  

  Irving Babbitt

• I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Book

• It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Kids
  • Action

• These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • People
  • Up
  • Makeup

• I accepted an offer to do a concert for the reopening of the Mall of Memphis.

  

  Johnny Rivers