#johnson

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#find #house #i #johnson #like

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#johnson #life #lyndon #lyndon johnson #oxygen

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#came #crowd #during #enjoying #first

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#better #confidently #each #i #johnson

I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air. ↗

— Kate Lord Brown

#ata #beauty