John Quotes

Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers!

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

Everything looks better in the morning.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

I will stop the motor of the world.

To rule without being felt…is the great mystery of policy.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

I still love to fly and I'll never get over that.

If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.

You’re entering a world of pain.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

Love is the most common miracle.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

Books belong to their readers.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

Beauty is its own excuse.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Nothing is real unless it is observed

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.