#johns

Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty." "Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#sebastian-morgenstern #simon-lewis #city-of-fallen-angels

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him. ↗

— David Bowie

#allowed #got #guy #had #him

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world. ↗

— Robert Caro

#country #creating #first #had #hill

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work. ↗

— Robert Caro

#leader #lyndon #lyndon johnson #made #majority

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. ↗

— Iris Chang

#afterwards #asked #because #book #emphasized

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#back #believe #come #decisions #disinterested

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#city #go #gotta #i #johnson

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson. ↗

— Morris Dees

#am #angry #been #billy #civil

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#big #booster #bud #came #chicago

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#i #johnson #know #personally #robert