John Quotes

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.

Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

In order for this team to win the game, the quarterback has to throw the ball.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

I don't really have a comprehension of being a public figure.

One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

We die alone, but we live among men.

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.

Now I do have a choice, and I'm not going to do anything I don't want to do.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.