John Quotes

Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people.

If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

Why argue about decisions you're not powerful enough to make yourself?

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Difference is of the essence of humanity.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

We are all dying of life.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.

Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

Thou shalt never wash my feet.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.