Kaelah Johnson Quotes

She hadn't loved Randolph Carter. He had been a man like many, so wrapped and rapt in his own story that there was no room for the world around him except as it served his own tale: the black men of Parg and Kled and Sona Nyl, the gold men of Thorabon and Ophir and Rinar; and all the women invisible everywhere, except when they brought him drinks or sold him food - all walk-on parts in the play that was Randolph Carter, or even wallpaper. ~ Kij Johnson

Maybe I'm so full of emotion because I'm so full of everyone else's secrets. ~ Dakota Johnson

Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend. ~ Barbara Johnson

I can't stop myself - I reach out a hand and lay it against his knee. He tenses at the contact, but, after a few seconds, I feel his muscles relax under my fingers. He's unused to being comforted, I think to myself. Unused to the idea that someone might reach out to give rather than take, requiring nothing in return. ~ Julie Johnson

Employment in the Small Bookstore"
Twelve Poems, 1975

The dust is almost motionless
in this narrowness, this stillness,
yet how unlike a coffin
it is, sometimes letting a live one in,
sometimes out
and the air,
though paused, impends not a thing,
the silence isn't sinister,
and in fact not much goes on
at the Ariel Book Shop today,
no one weeps in the back
room full of books, old books, no one
is tearing the books to shreds, in fact
I am merely sitting here
talking to no one, no one being here,
and I am blameless,
More,
I am grateful for the job,
I am fond of the books and touch them,
I am grateful that King St. goes down
to the river, and that the rain
is lovely, the afternoon green.
If the soft falling away of the afternoon
is all there is, it is nearly
enough, just
let me hear the beautiful clear voice
of a woman in song passing
toward silence, and then
that will be all for me
at five o'clock
I will walk
down to see the untended
sailing yachts of the Potomac
bobbing hopelessly in another silence,
the small silence that gets to be a long
one when the past stops talking
to you because it is dead,
and still you listen,
hearing just the tiny
agonies of old boats
on a cloudy day, in cloudy water.
Talk to it. Men are talking to it
by Cape Charles, for th ~ Denis Johnson

What is it, really, that we could lose if we handed ourselves over to the discernment of faith? Would we really lose anything except the illusion of control? This question suggests that there may be an idolatrous project underlying resistance to spiritual discernment: the desire for a decision-making process that we can predict and control.
But the obedience of faith offers no certainties, not even that of being certain of our our fidelity. We cannot know if the decision we make here and now are correct. We only know that they are the best we are able to make, and that in the future we might both regret them and need to change them. The reason has nothing to do with our sinfulness and everything to do with the fact that faith has to do with the Living God, who always moves ahead of us in surprising and sometimes shocking ways. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Heb. 10:31). ~ Luke Timothy Johnson

The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit. ~ Samuel Johnson

Mrs. Bob Johnson, the wife of the New York Life Insurance agent, is an excellent cook, ~ Truman Capote

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second. ~ Michael Johnson

Those who ask of the purpose of life
have not discovered an outer meaning
for inner designs ~ Levi Johnson

It's called a gui-tar. It's used to perform American rural music. It's said to be especially popular in Texas, " he told her. "It's also the instrument of choice for playing 'the blues,' which is a form of American music that chronicles the pain caused by poor decision making. ~ Adam Johnson

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. ~ Eyvind Johnson

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~ Samuel Johnson

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. ~ Rashid Johnson

The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age. ~ Jack Johnson

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character. ~ Dwayne Johnson

I still have a whopping bad case of what you call scag magnetism. I thought i had gotten rid of it there, but it looks like scary guys still materialize from thin air in my presence. They are drawn to me. I am the North Pole, and they are the explorers of love. ~ Maureen Johnson

Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man! ~ Maureen Johnson

Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity. ~ Chris Johnson

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up. ~ Ben Yagoda

....I'd skimmed along life like a surfer, mistaking speed for direction. I'd feigned to be pressing forward when I was really running away ~ John Johnson

If it takes years to build a friendship, then every other relationship should be called 'a quickie. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in that world as the sound of the train died away. A frail familiarity in these scenes hinted to him that they came from his childhood. Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley and realized he'd been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed. ~ Denis Johnson

Be yourself. Trust me, you don't want to be anyone else because they are not you and you are special. ~ Delano Johnson

People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about. ~ Rachel Johnson

The whole thing smelled like a thrift shop that had been baked in a low oven and felt like a too-tight and too-long hug by a rejected Muppet. ~ Maureen Johnson

Ronald Burt, looked at the origin of good ideas inside the organizational network of the Raytheon Corporation. Burt found that innovative thinking was much more likely to emerge from individuals who bridged "structural holes" between tightly knit clusters. Employees who primarily shared information with people in their own division had a harder time coming up with useful suggestions ~ Steven Johnson

Abortion can never be safe. Any procedure where "success" means the killing of another human being can certainly not be safe. ~ Abby Johnson

In the motive lies the good or ill. ~ Samuel Johnson

Be more obsessed with upgrading your MIND than your appearance. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

I see the concern in her eyes and I want to laugh. After the way I treat her, she would still do anything for me, just like the rest of them... ~ Missy Johnson

The biggest danger to American stability," Johnson argued, "is the politics of principle, which brings out the masses in irrational fights for unlimited goals, for once the masses begin to move, then the whole thing begins to explode. Thus it is for the sake of nothing less than stability that I consider myself a consensus man. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Guys who do a lot of running and jumping around cannot get themselves set to throw a hard punch. ~ Jack Johnson

If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it. ~ Calvin Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates. ~ Keyshawn Johnson

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women. ~ Sonia Johnson

Acknowledge your critics, but do what's right. ~ Gary Johnson

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. ~ Phillip E. Johnson

When that light within begins to dim, fan the flame just enough to spark something! ~ Sanjo Jendayi

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Don't take it so hard, Joel," Johnson cut in. "After all, prayer is
not the monopoly of one." (Chapter 18) ~ Ryanne Salve

The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup. ~ F. Ross Johnson

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young. ~ Samuel Johnson

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. ~ Philip Johnson

Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening. ~ Sam Taylor-Johnson

Certainly the past doesn't exist anywhere outside our own heads. I have never touched, kicked, or felt the past. ~ Matthew Johnson