B.S. Johnson Quotes

“Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us”

B.S. Johnson

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• My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Problem
  • Eat
  • Too Much

• I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Felt

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Song
  • Effort

• I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Hope

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• I've always wanted to be a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Singer

• Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Heard

• There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Enough
  • Look
  • Stand

• For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Hair
  • Office
  • Nasty

• In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Nostalgia

• Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Help
  • Jesus
  • Shopping

• In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Drawing
  • Buildings
  • Hague

• The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.

  

  F. Matthias Alexander

• There is a need to be the best you can be. You can't panic; you concentrate. When I run up to the hurdles, I'm very nervous, but I'll tend to think about technical things to keep my mind focused. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jessica-ennis-hill-quotes_2

  

  Jessica Ennis Hill
  • Mind
  • Focused
  • Panic

• I think it's reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I'm not, it's very unlikely, in fact, let's say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Words

• Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Hope
  • Fact
  • Ahead

• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Democracy
  • Equality
  • Social

• “Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us”

  

  B.S. Johnson
  • Loss
  • Fact
  • Died