John Quotes

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting.

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so distasteful.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only be about one atom in every cubic meter of space.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

When resistance no longer serves you, you'll no longer have it.

When a drop of water touches a drop of water there is no holding back - it joins. Water responds to water. Your being responds to what is the same, outside of you, as your own being.

There's no good that can come out of secrecy.

I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up.

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.