Johnny Olson (John Leonard Olson) Quotes

It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

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• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Better
  • Environmental
  • Fuel

• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Morning
  • Looking

• I'm a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Big Fan

• Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • People
  • Game
  • Football

• I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Money
  • Vision
  • Short

• I love hats. On tour, it's difficult to stop in at a barber. It's good to have a hat nearby.

  

  OMI
  • Good
  • Love
  • Stop

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Child

• In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Madness

• It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'

  

  Vanity

• People will come back and influence their communities to get excited about space. Space funding will increase because people will see the benefit it has to the way people relate to the world, the way people relate to problems, and the way people view themselves.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Style
  • Model
  • Photography

• I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Together
  • Feeling
  • Community

• 'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Pretty
  • Makeup

• When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Done
  • Listen
  • Albums

• I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson

• Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world's most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.

  

  Bobby Kotick
  • World
  • Great
  • Game

• A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Ugly

• The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Computer

• The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Practice

• It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.

  

  Johnny Olson
  • Time
  • Future
  • Stake