Darrell Johnson Quotes

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Darrell Johnson

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• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Hero
  • Force
  • Used

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• 'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Thankful

• Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

  

  Lance Ito
  • You
  • See
  • Camera

• Never fight an inanimate object.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Fight

• As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Find
  • Come
  • Predict

• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Self

• Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Better
  • Waves
  • Sand

• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Mad
  • Sane
  • Madman

• I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • School
  • Band
  • Songs

• I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Looking
  • Walk

• Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Pretty

• While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.

  

  Aeschylus

• Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Heart
  • Dark

• Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Women

• Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace.

  

  Jean Monnet
  • High
  • Peace

• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• It struck me deep in my mind. Some day, the chip is going to surpass mankind's brain.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Deep

• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Parents

• You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

  

  Darrell Johnson
  • Together
  • Listen
  • Noise