Craig Johnston Quotes

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

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• Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Bad
  • Healing
  • Bad Times

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Same

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Bad
  • Unique
  • Watch

• When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • People
  • Plan
  • Terrorism

• I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Family
  • Why

• You have good days and bad days.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in bad locker rooms, and now we got this analytics stuff that doesn't teach kids how to play. We've got these workout coaches that don't teach kids how to play basketball.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Basketball

• Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Parents

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• The gods behold all righteous actions.

  

  Ovid
  • Gods
  • Actions
  • Righteous

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Moving

• The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Independent
  • Persistence
  • Designer

• Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Success

• My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Time

• Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

  

  Craig Johnston
  • Bad