Monica Johnson Quotes

It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can't do?

Monica Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1946 - November 1, 2010

Topics

GoalsGodYourselfLooking BackSick

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

FutureScienceHatePastBiology

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

Melissa Rauch

BusinessTimeLaughRejectionYou

My collections are full of adaptable pieces: within the energetic lifestyle of L.A., they are able to take you from the beach in Malibu to the red carpet in Hollywood.

Matthew Williamson

BeachRedYouLifestyleHollywood

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Anna Deavere Smith

ActingVeryLotTechniques

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Angela Davis

LeadershipMyselfNeverIndividual

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

RuPaul

LifeDangerousGuarantees

I don't think anybody would dispute that we're seeing a warming of the Earth.

Dirk Kempthorne

ThinkSeeingEarthWouldAnybody

Everybody's like, 'You're tall. You didn't play basketball?' They asked me when I was a freshman in high school, and basketball practice was the same time a lot of stuff happened with choir. And I picked choir, which, normally, people would scratch their heads at, but it worked out okay.

Chris Young

TimeSchoolPracticePeopleMeYou

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Clive James

TechnologyYouPowerfulWrongGo

Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away like it's a cocktail party, completely ignores all the finely-tuned protocols of surf that have developed over decades.

Peter Heller

PartyOverCocktailOutAwayMeans

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

Tyron Woodley

GoodBeginningSchoolGrowing Up

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

Nicolas Cage

WinThinkYouWrongGoMovies

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