Lady Bird Johnson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
-
Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
-
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
-
I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
-
People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
-
I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
-
When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
-
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
-
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
-
Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
-
Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.
-
I read everything and anything. I love books.
-
I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
-
The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
-
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
-
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
-
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
-
Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.
-
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
-
I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.
-
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
