Bret Anthony Johnston Quotes

The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Bret Anthony Johnston

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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Life
  • Men
  • Only

• Once you feel good, you look good... that projects to everyone.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good

• 'None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Business
  • Song
  • Regret

• In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

  

  Ciara
  • Time
  • World
  • Song

• The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

  

  Hernan Cortes

• The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Powerful

• There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter?

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Money
  • Why
  • Professional

• The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Independent
  • Organization

• When people do come face to face with each other as human beings, they begin to understand each other better.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • People

• Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

  

  Janet Malcolm

• There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Confidence

• When you dance,Do your senses tingle?Then take a chance?In a trance,While the lonely mingleWith circumstance?

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Dance
  • Lonely

• I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• All I wanted to do while I was a teenager was go out and play most of the time and just enjoy life and have fun. I wasn't big into school, you know, I look back now and wish I would have spent more time studying and enjoyed it more. It's not for everyone and I didn't enjoy it that much like going to school and studying - some stuff I did but some of it I didn't. My attention span wasn't there.

  

  George Stults
  • School
  • Attention
  • Studying

• Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Bridge
  • Build
  • Guitars

• In my sobriety, I have discovered that the people I love, and who hurt me, were sick like me.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Confused

• The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

  

  Bret Anthony Johnston
  • Loss
  • Bridge
  • Solid