David Johansen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
-
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
-
Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
-
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
-
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
-
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
-
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
-
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
-
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
-
I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
-
I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
-
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
-
When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
-
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
-
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
-
Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
-
As I get older, the things that I want are starting to make more sense. Being able to travel makes me happy, and I am a person that lives in the moment. I also want to live a good life. Traveling makes everyday issues seem so much smaller and really changes my perspective on things.
-
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
-
How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.
-
You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.
