John Quotes

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

I just want you to know who I am.

I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

I'll be able to pull off playing an unlikable character because inherently, I think I'm likable.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

A word of Encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.

Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.

Even today you can look through almost any consumer or professional publication and find headlines that possess not a single one of the necessary qualities, such as self-interest, news, or curiosity.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

I would say luck and preparation. I didn't dominate WWE when I first started, it was a slow process. I wasn't labelled the golden child from day one, it's been a very long road.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Fermentation equals civilization.

Always start where the energy is.

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.

When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.