Johnny Mathis Quotes

The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

Johnny Mathis

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• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• My brother is really, really slow.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Brother
  • Really
  • Slow

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Mind
  • Interesting
  • Open Mind

• I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Want

• I like the work that I get to do.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Work
  • Like
  • Get

• Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Great
  • Love
  • Today

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art

• I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Boy
  • Start
  • Loved

• I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Heart
  • City

• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

  

  James F. Cooper

• Need distractionNeed romance and candlelightNeed random violenceNeed entertainment tonightNeed the evidenceWant the testimony ofExpert witnessesOn the brutal crimes of love.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Random

• The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career