John Quotes

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

You only get a short life, so take chances.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

If the perfect Son of God is unattractive to you, then obviously you are an unattractive person.

I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain Like shadows on the winter sky Like frost upon the pane

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

Life is short..Live to the fullest.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

The barrier has begun to yield.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

Beggars can't be choosers.

They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

It's just simple: just keep fighting and keep believing, try not to show weakness out there.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

When it comes to lead referral generation, the customer experience is it.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.