Denis Johnson Quote

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an...
DENIS JOHNSON

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one an...
DENIS JOHNSON

I was afraid to make love to her without the conversations and laughter from the false universe play...
DENIS JOHNSON

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew ...
DENIS JOHNSON

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In orde...
DENIS JOHNSON

We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where h...
DENIS JOHNSON

There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
DENIS JOHNSON

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fo...
DENIS JOHNSON

I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later ...
DENIS JOHNSON

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply,...
DENIS JOHNSON

[The doctor] peeked into the trauma room and saw the situation: the clerk - that is, me - standing n...
DENIS JOHNSON

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this pl...
DENIS JOHNSON

The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached....
DENIS JOHNSON

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after some...
DENIS JOHNSON

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.
DENIS JOHNSON

Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what ...
DENIS JOHNSON

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.
DENIS JOHNSON

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never ...
DENIS JOHNSON

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
DENIS JOHNSON

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean t...
DENIS JOHNSON

I knew every raindrop by its name.
DENIS JOHNSON

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her...
DENIS JOHNSON

Talk into here. Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.
DENIS JOHNSON

The Vine had no jukebox, but a real stereo continually playing tunes of alcoholic self-pity and sent...
DENIS JOHNSON

Or maybe that wasn't the time it snowed. Maybe it was the time we slept in the truck and I rolled ov...
DENIS JOHNSON

He was completely and openly a mess. Meanwhile the rest of us go on trying to fool each other.
DENIS JOHNSON

People entering the bars on First Avenue gave up their bodies. Then only the demons inhabiting us co...
DENIS JOHNSON

And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.
DENIS JOHNSON

Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder aro...
DENIS JOHNSON

Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time?"

"No wonder t...
DENIS JOHNSON

That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away s...
DENIS JOHNSON

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.
DENIS JOHNSON

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed i...
DENIS DIDEROT

You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We r...
DENIS DIDEROT

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of indep...
DENIS WAITLEY

Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restr...
DENIS NAPTHINE

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Na...
DENIS LEARY

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
DENIS LEARY

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke h...
DENIS LEARY

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
CLAIRE DENIS

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and publi...
DENIS KEARNEY

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on ...
DENIS KEARNEY

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthw...
DENIS WAITLEY

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
DENIS WAITLEY

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we ...
DENIS LEARY

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving for...
DENIS WAITLEY

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out th...
DENIS WAITLEY

Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
DENIS WAITLEY

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
DENIS WAITLEY

I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch...
DENIS O'HARE

I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on ...
DENIS O'HARE

I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one da...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and idea...
DENIS WAITLEY

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
DENIS WAITLEY

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
DENIS WAITLEY

It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think
DENIS WAITLEY

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a c...
DENIS LEARY

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend yo...
DENIS WAITLEY

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then yo...
DENIS LEARY

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
DENIS WAITLEY

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy ...
DENIS WAITLEY

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
DENIS WAITLEY

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.
DENIS WAITLEY

I'm coming from a small town in Quebec where, at that time, there was no Internet, and the way t...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I'm among the hardcore fans of 'Blade Runner.' 'Blade Runner' is one of my favor...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

'2001: A Space Odyssey' is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also 'Bla...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

I've been dreaming to do sci-fi since I was 10 years old, and I said 'no' to a lot of se...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you...
DENIS WAITLEY

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
DENIS WAITLEY

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from...
DENIS WAITLEY

His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
DENIS DIDEROT

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
DENIS WAITLEY

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual exper...
DENIS WAITLEY

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
DENIS WAITLEY

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief...
DENIS WAITLEY

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
DENIS WAITLEY

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called ex...
DENIS WAITLEY

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
DENIS DIDEROT

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success ...
DENIS WAITLEY

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and min...
DENIS WAITLEY

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized soci...
DENIS DIDEROT

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
DENIS WAITLEY

Good music is very close to primitive language.
DENIS DIDEROT

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian ...
DENIS DIDEROT

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its i...
DENIS DIDEROT

Chase your passion, not your pension.
DENIS WAITLEY

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the z...
DENIS DIDEROT

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each sm...
DENIS WAITLEY

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At ...
DENIS DONOGHUE

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosopher...
DENIS DIDEROT

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the fut...
DENIS WAITLEY

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
DENIS WAITLEY

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
DENIS WAITLEY

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star...
DENIS WAITLEY

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
DENIS DIDEROT

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority ...
DENIS DIDEROT

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have com...
DENIS DIDEROT

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
DENIS DIDEROT

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
DENIS DIDEROT

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
DENIS WAITLEY

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most sa...
DENIS WAITLEY

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out the...
DENIS WAITLEY

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
DENIS WAITLEY

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
DENIS DIDEROT

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
DENIS WAITLEY

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibil...
DENIS WAITLEY

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life,...
DENIS BREEZE

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
DENIS DIDEROT

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
DENIS WAITLEY

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to con...
DENIS WAITLEY

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product...
DENIS DIDEROT

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it w...
DENIS DIDEROT

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
DENIS WAITLEY

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What ...
DENIS WAITLEY

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspect...
DENIS WAITLEY

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been ...
DENIS WAITLEY

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view fro...
DENIS WAITLEY

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make an...
DENIS WAITLEY

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
DENIS WAITLEY

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordi...
DENIS DIDEROT

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, a...
DENIS DIDEROT

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, refle...
DENIS DIDEROT

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.
DENIS DIDEROT

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are stru...
DENIS DIDEROT

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
DENIS DIDEROT

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
DENIS DIDEROT

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROT

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always mea...
DENIS DIDEROT

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerou...
DENIS DIDEROT

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed ...
DENIS DIDEROT

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties...
DENIS DIDEROT

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone...
DENIS DIDEROT

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this...
DENIS DIDEROT

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter ...
DENIS DIDEROT

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society ...
DENIS DIDEROT

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learnin...
DENIS WAITLEY

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as fa...
DENIS DIDEROT

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
DENIS DIDEROT

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in th...
DENIS DIDEROT

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
DENIS WAITLEY

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the ...
DENIS WAITLEY

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can u...
DENIS DIDEROT

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
DENIS WAITLEY

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
DENIS DIDEROT

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
DENIS WAITLEY

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that ...
DENIS DIDEROT

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
DENIS WAITLEY

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view f...
DENIS WAITLEY

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROT

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's...
DENIS DIDEROT

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously con...
DENIS WATLEY

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
DENIS DIDEROT

We're underscoring to everybody the promise at the heart of the Affordable Care Act, which is qu...
DENIS MCDONOUGH

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to...
DENIS VILLENEUVE

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...
DENIS DIDEROT

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who comm...
DENIS DIDEROT

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
DENIS DIDEROT

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can...
DENIS DIDEROT

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
DENIS DIDEROT

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are o...
DENIS DIDEROT

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary d...
DENIS WAITLEY

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy...
DENIS LEARY

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the fine...
DENIS WAITLEY

It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of i...
DENIS NORDEN

I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholi...
DENIS MCDONOUGH

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, a...
DENIS WAITLEY

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand,...
DENIS WAITLEY

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving...
DENIS WAITLEY

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and...
DENIS WAITLEY

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
DENIS WAITLEY

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time o...
DENIS WAITLEY

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
DENIS WAITLEY

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
DENIS DIDEROT

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled gr...
DENIS KEARNEY

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust a...
CLAIRE DENIS

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We ca...
DENIS WAITLEY

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
DENIS DIDEROT

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
DENIS LEARY

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving...
DENIS LEARY

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experie...
DENIS WAITLEY

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and...
DENIS LEARY

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use ma...
DENIS LEARY

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, mo...
DENIS LEARY

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny ...
DENIS LEARY

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all ...
DENIS LEARY

What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not in...
CLAIRE DENIS

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROT

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
DENIS HEALEY

No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my...
DENIS LEARY

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their...
DENIS WAITLEY

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have b...
DENIS WAITLEY

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor...
DENIS KEARNEY

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I wou...
DENIS O'HARE

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that ...
DENIS DIDEROT

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is al...
DENIS WAITLEY

As soon as the first drop of dawn dilutes the blackness, the neighbors begin their unbelievable racket, first the roosters, then the radios, then the live accompaniment to the radios - and then it's time to wind up the little children and start their screams and tears.

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As soon as the first drop of dawn dilutes the blackness, the neighbors begin their unbelievable racket, first the roosters, then the radios, then the live accompaniment to the radios - and then it's time to wind up the little children and start their screams and tears.

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