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

• When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Kids

• Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Bad
  • Human
  • Books

• People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't know any different. I grew up in a very tall house, so I wasn't an anomaly there.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."

  

  Gabe Polsky
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Culture

• I met Paul Kossoff for the first time when I was playing in the back of a pub room in Finsbury Park in London in 1967. It was kind of a blues thing going on, and he came up and said, 'I'd like to have a jam.' So he came up and jammed with me, and I just loved his playing right from the start.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Up
  • Time

• 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