John Quotes

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Failure has no friends.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave.

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

If you look really carefully, when it comes to the Secret, the power or our mind, the power of our intention in our daily lives, it's all around us. All we gotta do is open our eyes and look.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Grace will hold you every step of the way.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Nixon was a conservative who’s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama’s a liberal who’s way more conservative than his party can admit.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.