B.S. Johnson Quotes
“When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”
Quotes to Explore
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I tend not to look back. It's confusing.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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For the first time in his life, he was receiving the priceless gift of a woman's unconditional love and acceptance. It contradicted all that he knew about love, all that he had taught others. And he found himself needing it like a drowning man needs air to breathe and solid ground under his feet.
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“When Jenny left me, betrayed me for a cripple whom she imagined to need her more, my mother said never mind, perhaps he would die and then I could have her back again.”
