Johnny Quotes
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Johnny, keep it out of focus. I want to win the
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...as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."–a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets–I AM AN ANTICHRIST–Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today–listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang–my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.
greil marcus— Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989) p. 1
John Roecker's Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars *but were afraid to ask , is an intimate, brave and frequently witty exploration inside the heads of 16 male erotic video performers, many with well-known nom de porns: Johnny Hazzard, Brad Benton, Nick Capra and Jason Ridge.
— Lamble, David (December 4, 2008). "Erotic superstars, up-close & personal: here!TV's 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars'". The Bay Area Reporter (Benro Enterprises, Inc.).
Look at little Johnny there, Little Johnny Head-in-Air!
Heinrich Hoffmann— 1845 Struwwelpeter,'Johnny Head-in- Air'.
Do not despair For Johnny Head-in-Air He sleeps as sound As Johnny Underground.
— 1941 'ForJohnny', spoken by Sir Michael Redgrave at the end of the film TheWay to the Stars (1945).
Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rainLet her talk about the things you can't explainTo touch is to heal, to hurt is to stealIf you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel.On your knees, boy.
bono— "Mysterious Ways"
I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked my character, Johnny, what I was rebelling against, and I answered 'Whaddya got?' But none of us involved in the picture ever imagined that it would instigate or encourage youthful rebellion.
Marlon Brando— Speaking about the film The Wild One (1953) in Songs My Mother Taught Me (1994)
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
johnny cash— Opening lines at many of his concerts and public appearances.
Because Johnny was especially clever I think we should make him monitor for the whole week. Don't you?
james clavell— The Children's Story, said by the "New Teacher" (1982).
My problem is that I can't come unless Johnny Cash is playing.
joey comeau— "The girl who couldn't come."
John Roecker's Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars *but were afraid to ask, is an intimate, brave and frequently witty exploration inside the heads of 16 male erotic video performers, many with well-known nom de porns: Johnny Hazzard, Brad Benton, Nick Capra and Jason Ridge.
john roecker— Lamble, David (December 4, 2008). "Erotic superstars, up-close & personal: here!TV's 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars'". The Bay Area Reporter (Benro Enterprises, Inc.).
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.
freeman dyson— "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" in Nature 427 (22 January 2004), p. 297 (subscription required)
Lithuanian baritone Vytas Juozapaitis brings presence and a warm, strong voice to the title role. When we first see him, hair flying in mid-rape, he looks like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean.
vytautas juozapaitis— Richard Dyer, "Teatro's Don Giovanni a rousing production". Boston Globe (September 25, 2003)
[Keats] was the very soul of courage and manliness, and as much like the holy Ghost as Johnny Keats .
john keats— George Keats.
Hear, Land o' Cakes and brither Scots Frae Maiden Kirk to Johnny Groat's.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland.
Johnny!
— Who: Ashley, Johnny's Girlfriend
— Note: Says this after Trevor kills Johnny. She can be killed afterwards. If she survives, she will be mentioned as having been killed in Heroin Orgy later in the game.
Johnny Ramone (aka John Cummings)
— "If a man can tell he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful."
Johnny Carnegie lais heer Descendit of Adam and Eve, Gif ony cou gang hieher, I'se willing give him leve.
— Epitaph in an old Scottish Churchyard; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 233.
Johnny! Johnny!
— Who: Patricia Ann Bradley
You've always been a good son, Johnny.
— Who: Mom
— Source: "The Woman in the Room" from Night Shift
— Note: Says this as her son sets her up to overdose on painkillers, euthanizing her.
I... I did it... for Johnny!
— Who: Debbie
— Source: The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun by Julie Brown.
— Note: Debbie, the homecoming queen, was asked why she went on a shooting rampage at the prom; her answer was unenlightening, as the narrator has no idea who "Johnny" was.
