Patrick Read Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

  • You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

  • Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  • I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

  • Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward.

  • The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

  • You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  • The most important phase of a child’s life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

  • Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

  • Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.