Johnny Mathis Quotes

I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!

Johnny Mathis

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• I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Car
  • Listening
  • Ride

• Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Witty

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kid
  • Used
  • Sculpt

• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Busy

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Career

• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • You
  • Say
  • Rather

• I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Country
  • She

• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Home
  • Happy

• We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Citizens

• I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • New
  • Paid
  • Dues

• I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• I thought 'Pineapple Express' was hilarious.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Thought
  • Hilarious
  • Express

• Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Power
  • Freedom

• He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • You
  • Down
  • Started

• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Him
  • Reform

• With my feelings, I hold a lot in, because I didn't always have boundaries and people would take advantage of situations because I'm a nice guy.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • People
  • Guy
  • Nice

• The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • People
  • Effort
  • Vision

• I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Marketing

• If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Smile
  • Excuses
  • Retreat

• I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!

  

  Johnny Mathis