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

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• 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

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• 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

• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Chance

• 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

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• 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

• Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your generosity.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Generosity
  • Begin
  • Stretch

• 'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Want
  • Story
  • Loss

• Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Candle
  • Insects

• “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