Johnny Mathis Quotes

When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

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• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Work
  • Real
  • War

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Research

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Age
  • Lies

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Book
  • History
  • Present

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Changed

• You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Design

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Mother
  • Best
  • Cool

• The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Work
  • Past

• We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Meaningful

• When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • Life

• I just want to carry on the way we [ Joy Division] are, I think. Basically, we want to play and enjoy what we like playing. I think when we stop doing that I think, well, that will be the time to pack it in. That'll be the end.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

  

  Johnny Mathis
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