Eric Johnston Quotations

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

We're still excited. We still have a great field.

What I can see here is that I think our quality (of racing) will go up, ... We usually get a lot of Louisiana horsemen anyway. The wild card is what will happen with the Louisiana-bred money.

Both Georges were not thugs. I know the difference and I know guys that have been in a tow truck that are bikers but they're thugs. They'll do stupid things, they'll insult people, they'll intimidate people at wrecks. . . . These guys weren't like that.

I'm tickled with the field as it came up with the absence of the Fair Grounds this year.

If the power goes out, business stops ... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.