John Quotes

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

The luck will alter and the star will rise.

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

Chess is a cure for headaches.

The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B."

Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed . . .

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Sometimes love don't feel like it should, you make it hurt so good.

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the surplus that supports the entire enterprise.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV.

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

My sentence is for open war.

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.