Rossiter Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!
-- Rossiter Johnson

#Summer #Garden #July
How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.
-- Rossiter Johnson

#Rain #Doors #Rivers
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.
-- Rossiter Johnson

#Book #Writing #Exercise

You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
Donâ€™t mind me,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.â€ â€œNo, you diddnâ€™t,â€ Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasnâ€™t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 â€œWorld events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. Itâ€™s being fulfilled every day round about us.
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

Rossiter Johnson famous quotes

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