Rachel Johnson Quotations

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

She is amazing. She is a great kid. I couldn't ask for better. I'm very proud of her.

Mr. Milner not only taught us, he inspired us to make a difference.

I am very excited about cross country. With running the 800 in track, the more training I get distance-wise, the better off I will be.

People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.

Users want up-to-the-minute celebrity information at their fingertips and our users are showing no signs of tiring of celeb news,

Two-thirds of families admitted they had difficulty trying to accommodate everyone's tastes when planning a summer break,

what we already know. It's not a huge about-face.

There's sort of a misperception about the role that sports drinks play in a nutritious diet. If a child's thirsty, water is the best beverage.

Animal Science is our largest undergraduate department. They have a new chair, Dr. Thomas McFadden, who will continue to build their excellent undergraduate programs in general animal science, pre-veterinary science, equine science and dairy production.

A new faculty member, Dr. Lynn Gregory, was hired to strengthen our new major in Public Communication housed in the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics. A new faculty member, Dr. Amy Trubek, was hired to strengthen our curriculum around sustainable food systems in the department of Nutrition and Food Sciences.

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

The internet has enormous potential to bring weight-loss success and lifestyle changes to people worldwide and in settings where traditional clinics cannot.

I'm going to watch my friends more closely and make sure they don't do anything stupid.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybodys talking about.

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.