Philip Johnson Quotes

Dullness is the enemy.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Scary
  • Old

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Know
  • Danger
  • Israel

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Opportunity
  • Function
  • Occasion

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • Enemy
  • Creativity

• All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Power
  • Society

• That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Important
  • Growing

• Dullness is the enemy.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Enemy