Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or building:
“What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“A publisher is a specialised form of bank or building society, catering for customers who cannot cope with life and are therefore forced to write about it.”
—Colin Haycraft (b. 1929)