Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or building:
“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
“There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)