John Quotes

I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.

I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

I find Lady Gaga hilarious. And I kind of like her. My heart's warmed to her.

Only the fakes survive.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not waking till she sings.

The night has a thousand eyes.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

If you lose your best cornerback and punter, I'd say that's a double loss.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

My mother was the center of the family.

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

Every country has their problems.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.