Jeremy Robert Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprahâ€™s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden heâ€™s just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. Theyâ€™ll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far.
-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

#Dad #Book #Past
Loneliness is a hell of a drug.
-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

#Loneliness #Drug #Hell
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.
-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

#Sun #Flew #Icarus
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarroâ€™s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.
-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

#Powerful #Dark #Mad
Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.
-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

#Psych #Reality #New Orleans
Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.
-- Jeremy Robert Johnson

#Fun #Book #Men

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

Jeremy Robert Johnson famous quotes

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