David Johansen Quotes

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

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• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Freedom
  • Attention
  • Holocaust

• If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Future
  • Success
  • Confidence

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Film
  • Dead

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Brain

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Live
  • Society
  • Prosperity

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Mistake
  • Spokesman
  • Crackpot

• I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Time
  • Ideas

• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Art
  • College

• The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Women
  • Money
  • Single

• Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

  

  James Stockdale
  • Time

• 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

  

  Jerome Charyn
  • Life
  • Book
  • Power

• As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

  

  David Johansen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future