John Quotes
Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.
I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
The difference between Sales and Marketing is that Marketing owns the message and Sales owns the relationship.
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.