Eyvind Johnson Quotes

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

Eyvind Johnson

• Poet
• Achieved
• Backdrop

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Self

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Way

• During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• You can't win what you don't fight for.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Fight

• [I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Music
  • Change

• We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Past
  • Problems
  • Except

• I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Great
  • Believer
  • OHIO principle

• Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

  

  Sophocles
  • Know
  • Lies
  • Understand

• Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Busy
  • Importance
  • Cares

• I am a rune a carrot a little joke

  

  Walter Wykes
  • Jokes
  • Carrots
  • Runes

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Poet
  • Achieved
  • Backdrop