John Quotes

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

I believe in miracles . . . prayers that are answered and healing hands.

Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine!

Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.

I found my life's calling when you spoke my name.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.