George Johnson Quotes

Try as we might, we will never succeed in squeezing the immensity of creation into our tiny heads.

George Johnson

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• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
  • Rest

• I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Pain
  • Better
  • New

• The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Internet

• I will serve the people in a very humble way.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • People
  • Way
  • Humble

• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Space
  • Moment
  • Stars

• Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Book
  • Puzzles

• I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Planning

• How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

  

  William Cowper
  • Sweet
  • Solitude
  • Loneliness

• Government is the enemy until you need a friend.

  

  William S. Cohen
  • Friend
  • Government
  • Enemy

• It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Men
  • Creation

• Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Silence
  • Creation
  • Heavens

• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

  

  Walter Sickert
  • Misunderstood
  • Immense
  • Fated

• Try as we might, we will never succeed in squeezing the immensity of creation into our tiny heads.

  

  George Johnson
  • Creation
  • Heads
  • Squeezing