Tom Johnston Quotes

We have not had a window of opportunity to burn. If we lit it now, I'm not sure we could hold it even with a lot of people.

Tom Johnston The Doobie Brothers

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• First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Justice
  • First
  • Portfolio

• All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • You
  • Training
  • Negotiation

• I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • School
  • Dream
  • Dance

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Truth
  • Will
  • Compass

• I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Social
  • Butterfly

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Place
  • Race
  • Group

• All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Dream
  • You
  • Try

• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Couple
  • Short
  • Sandwiches

• My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Childhood
  • Bitter

• I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Language
  • Certain

• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Information

• Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

  

  John Mica

• He said we lived in a provincial country, where every occasion was an opportunity for complaining, but meanwhile no one rolled up his sleeves and reorganized things, trying to make them function.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Opportunity
  • Function
  • Occasion

• But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

  

  Nick Lampson
  • Opportunity
  • Patriotism
  • Veteran

• A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Mind
  • Diamond

• We have not had a window of opportunity to burn. If we lit it now, I'm not sure we could hold it even with a lot of people.

  

  Tom Johnston The Doobie Brothers
  • Opportunity
  • Window
  • Burn