John Quotes
I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.
Real teams don't emerge unless individuals on them take risks involving conflict, trust, interdependence and hard work.
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.
New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.
You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.
We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for people to persist through that.
You know, I am kind of a bi-polarish schitzerphrenic. I run the gamut of being incredibly shy and withdrawn to being a crazy-eccentric exhibitionist. And I have always been like that.
Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.
Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.