Eyvind Johnson Quotes
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
Quotes to Explore
-
Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
-
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
-
I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
-
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
-
Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
-
I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
-
I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
-
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
-
I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
-
When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
-
A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
-
In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
-
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
-
As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
-
My hope is that 'The New World Haggadah' will open a new world for readers who will see our heritage through a multilingual prism. I wanted to feature medieval and renaissance authors, resistance in World War II, crypto-Jews and activists during the Dirty War in Latin America, songs of protest, and songs of hope.
-
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
-
I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
-
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
-
I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
-
Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
-
She felt like a juggler tossing torches into the air. The circus-master kept throwing more in. Sooner or later, one would fall, and the life she'd built would burn to cinders.
-
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
