Johnny Mathis Quotes

You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.

Johnny Mathis

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• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Television

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Today
  • Lawyers

• But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Canvas

• There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • School
  • Sales

• It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • High
  • Responsible

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Done
  • Hope

• The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Government
  • Privacy

• Fighting is one of those things that gets tons of attention, far more than it deserves.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Attention
  • Fighting
  • Far

• Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Remember
  • Perfect

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it s just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Soul
  • Couple

• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Unity

• And here's the first thing I would do if I were president of the United States. I wouldn't let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We're not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We are not leaving town until we restore the intel cuts.

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Military
  • Leaving

• I had to shake the spot cause the game got crowded I'm devoted and quote it, I'm rowdy and bout it A No Limit Soldier, and happy to shout it.

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Soldier

• In private, I may wear a bikini, but at the public beach with my kids, I would change bathing suits because they do not want to be hanging out with some old broad in a bikini.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • May
  • Kids
  • Beach

• In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

  

  Woody Shaw
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Style

• This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Responsibility

• Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

  

  Alan Rufus
  • Unknown
  • Step
  • Potential

• The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Single
  • Positive
  • Military

• All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Men

• You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.

  

  Johnny Mathis