John Quotes

I think [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

If you really want the truth of anything, don't use Wikipedia.

I've always despised the hippies.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers. Well, there's something to be said for flowers in the dustbin.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

I don't believe in false memories, like I don't believe in false songs.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

My words are my bullets.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.