John Quotes

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Whenever you talk about a Mike Shanahan offense, you're always going to be talking about his offense.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.

I'll stand beside you through the years, you'll only cry those happy tears. And though I'll make mistakes, I'll never break your heart.

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.