John Quotes

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

I think comparisons are odious.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

All the fatt's in the fire.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

The key to selecting the winner isn't choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

He [Roger Federer] is the greatest natural talent in tennis I've ever seen. I love to watch the guy play, he's an awesome talent

You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice.

Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.