Johnny Van Zant Quotes
I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not looking to shock anyone.
-
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
-
Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
-
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
-
Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
-
Personal style says so much about who you are. What you wear can entice different things from within you.
-
I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.
-
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
-
Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
-
It may sound crazy, but maybe there's an economic way of producing a leather-like product in the laboratory.
-
I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.
-
Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
-
Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.
-
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.
-
I'm not very keen on ageing. I'm not keen on the physical decay. I probably am quite vain. I think you want to try and look OK for the benefit of other people.
-
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
-
I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.
-
I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.
-
History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
-
It's one of those rare 'perfect' kernels. So if it doesn't happen to compile with your config (or it does compile, but then does unspeakable acts of perversion with your pet dachshund), you can rest easy knowing that it's all your own damn fault, and you should just fix your evil ways.
-
To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.
-
I'm very proud to be from Jacksonville.
-
I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
-
I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.
