John Quotes

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn they floated on And mingled into one.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Fair words cost nothing.

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

One brave deed makes no hero.

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

The main thing is winning. Stats aren't that important, but I think in the end things will work themselves out.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.