Amy Johnson Quotes

Don't cry Meg. It's not that bad."

"It's not that bad? Ha! I'm thirty years old, with two black eyes, a swollen nose, a big, honking, yellow knot on my forehead, and the haircut from hell. As if that isn't enough, I had a transvestite in my bed this morning, my husband is a lying, cheating, cradle robbing, bastard, who at some point slept with my best friend."

Jack scooted over to the middle of the seat, and stopped listening to his head and wrapped his arms around her. Big mistake! From inside, four faces were pressed to the window.

"My last orgasm-with a partner- was…hell I can't remember when! I frequently knock myself out for entertainment purposes, I have little boobs, big feet, squishy panties, nosy neighbors and demon possessed fish. God hates me!"

Jack held her tighter.

"I have frequent flyer miles at the hospital. I fed my husband marijuana Ex-lax brownies and shoved a marble up his butt."

Jack pulled away to look at her and she was serious. And crying. Big, sad, alligator tears that made his heart swell. "My mother is a holy rolling, Catholic Dr. Ruth, complete with condoms and Rosary beads. I write about relationships and sex, both of which I suck at and I hired a Private Investigator to pimp me out."

Jack burst out laughing and she pushed him away and swatted his shoulder.

"And now you're laughing at me. Could things get any worse? ~ Amy Johnson

I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air. ~ Kate Lord Brown

Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end. ~ Amy Johnson

Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together. ~ Amy Johnson

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain. ~ Amy Johnson

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others. ~ Amy Johnson

According to this new evidence, most of our thinking (including our moral judgment) is not a pristinely rational process in the traditional sense, and therefore reasoning is not a bloodless, emotionless, purely formal logical process. Instead, we need an intact and functioning emotional apparatus in order for our reason to have any possibility of operating appropriately in a given situation. ~ Mark Johnson

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves. ~ Amy Carlson

I should've fought for you. Instead, I spent a long time blocking out every emotion I felt for you. And when I finally stopped being hurt and confused and headstrong, when I started to let feeling back in ... six years had passed and I was alone, on the other side of the world, without the only person I'd ever wanted standing by my side. ~ Julie Johnson

They're about a woman whose beauty is like a rare flower. There is a man who has a great love for her, a love he's been saving up for his entire life, and it doesn't matter that he must make a great journey to her, and it doesn't matter if their time together is brief, that afterward he might lose her, for she is the flower of his heart and nothing will keep him from her. ~ Adam Johnson

We worked in silence. One thing I liked about the cook was that he knew when to shut up even when he was mubblefubbled and dying to talk. Occasionally, I felt his eyes, like fishhooks, try to catch mine as we squeezed past one another in the narrow galley, but he kept his thoughts untongued. Personally, I was too pitchkettled to trust my own speech. ~ Charles R. Johnson

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns. ~ Herrick Johnson

I like water, though. I like the way it waits, and when you touch it, it both moves away and clings to your finger. I like the way it rises, like memory, or fear. ~ Amy Zhang

Like all men you have a religion - at least a way of looking at yourself and the universe both at once, which is all I'd hope a religion to be ... ~ Denis Johnson

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius. ~ Samuel Johnson

Jump, when they say, and ask, how high? It is the only way to truly fit in. And who would want to be any different? ~ Amy L. Orr

When we dream with God, we become the masterpieces of His imagination. ~ Bill Johnson

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~ Samuel Johnson

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that. ~ Zach Johnson

He would stand backstage and berate himself if he felt he didn't do a good job. It was almost like he couldn't hear how loud everyone was laughing. ~ Amy Poehler

That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer and his satanic missionaries. The fact is that the historical experience of the black Jamaican is an experience of the most acute human suffering, desolation and despair in the cruel world that is the colonial world ... ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges. ~ Shawn Johnson

Loving someone means putting their needs above your own. No matter what. Somehow, you figured that out. I'll be damned if I know how, but you did. ~ Amy Harmon

No one understands how science works, not even the most scientific scientists. ~ Amy Bonnaffons

The enemy uses lies to make problems appear bigger than the solutions we carry. ~ Bill Johnson

Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it . ~ David Shields

I'm empty and lonely and lost and I'm starving, and there isn't enough in the whole wide world that could make me feel whole. ~ Amy Reed

He isn't wearing a shirt ... He shouldn't just walk around like that; it's obscene to have to look at someone so perfect. He should do the world a favor and eat a donut or two. ~ Amy A. Bartol

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way. ~ Amy Adams

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace. ~ Magic Johnson

A kiss is good. I think kisses are where all good things start. ~ Amy Lane

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. ~ Samuel Johnson

I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession. ~ Jamie Johnson

When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious. ~ Bill Johnson

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do. ~ Amy Dickinson

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn. ~ Amy Sedaris

I became everything I feared. Now I am fear. And no one can stop me. ~ Amy Harmon

You're all I ever wanted... ~ Amy Rachel Thompson

Some people don't know when to stop talking. ~ Monica Johnson