John William Cummings (Johnny Ramone) Quotes

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

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• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Courage

• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Wish
  • Sin
  • I Wish

• I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Imagine
  • More
  • Expectations

• The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Women
  • Management
  • Forward

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Release

• A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Society
  • Past

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Generation

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Law
  • Problem

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Music
  • Art
  • Potential

• Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • High
  • Dance
  • Deep

• For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Why

• A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

  

  William Osler
  • Community
  • Health
  • Valuable

• No matter what you're facing in your life, what obstacles you might have, and what you feel your limitations might be, there's something inside you that's eternal, that is filled with wisdom and potential and possibility. There's an inner power inside you to affect an amazing level of healing, to help you find who you really are, to help you walk your unique path up the mountain, to help you move towards manifesting your fullest potential.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Power
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Thought
  • U.S.

• I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Want
  • Way
  • React