Johnny Hodges Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all. — Bonnie McKee

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents. — Jeremy London

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Science and art are the handmaids of religion. — Francois Delsarte

I was so in love I went into my room and drank half a bottle of Robitussin. — Adam Rapp

But what the long walk had not done was reveal the cause of the inherent distaste that had sprung out of nowhere overtaking her there under the tree. On the cold, damp grass, or up against the rough tree trunk. He had done it many times without a second thought, and in more challenging situations. It would have been nothing at all to wrap her long legs around his waist, brace one hand against the tree trunk, hold her tight with his other arm, and give the lady exactly what she wanted.

But for some reason he had not been able to do it. For the first time in his life, his body had been willing but his mind had not. Labeling the experience unpleasant would be a severe understatement. — Evangeline Collins

Sometimes," he [Congressmen John Lewis] said, "you have to ask for something that you know you may not get. And still you have to ask for it. It's still worth fighting for and, even if you don't believe that you will see it in your lifetime, you have got to hold it up so that the generation that comes next will take it from your hands and, in their own time, see it as a goal worth fighting for again. — Jonathan Kozol

We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe. — Henry David Thoreau