YANNI “JOHNNY” BACOLAS: I would always tell him, “Layne [Staley], why don’t you take off, go to some deserted island, hire the best counselors, and just kick this shit? Go for six months if you have to.” And his rebuttal was, “Johnny, I h...
Eddie: Hey, let's beat it, man. I don't like it up here. Nic: What are ya, scared of heights? Eddie: I don't know. After what happened to Johnny Gobs... Nic: Hey, look, man. Johnny Gobs got ripped and took a walk off a roof, all right? No big loss. E...
Johnny Rocco: You'd give your left arm to nail me wouldn't you? I could see the headlines now, 'Local Deputy Captures Johnny Rocco'. Your picture'd be in all the papers. You might even get to tell on the newsreels how you pulled if off, yeah. Listen ...
Johnny: Why would youse wanna be the same as everybody else? Ariel: 'Cause everybody else goes trick-or-treating. Sarah: What's that? Ariel: It's what they do here for Halloween. Johnny: What do you mean? Like, help the Halloween party? Christy: No. ...
Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.
To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are.
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.
Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold. --Johnny quoting Robert Frost
And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.
Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.
Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.
