Bret Anthony Johnston Quotes

Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.

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• Tone can be as important as text.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Important
  • Text
  • Tone

• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • America
  • Mistakes
  • Hell

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Care

• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Society
  • Product
  • Boredom

• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Exercise
  • Version
  • Bulimia

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Society
  • Party

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• You don't know where life takes you.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • America
  • Opportunity

• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • First
  • Loved

• Joe Roth, who ended up becoming president of 20th Century Fox, he was the producer of Our Winning Season. This was one of his first movies. It's just a really great, great little film, a lot of good people in it. I don't know whatever happened to that movie, and why it didn't get the success it deserves.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Past

• What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.

  

  Bret Anthony Johnston
  • Children
  • Beauty
  • Mystery