John Quotes

I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

Disagreement is a rare achievement, and most of what is called disagreement is simply confusion.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

Nobody can know what's in my heart. Nobody can know what I'm thinking. I know what I've got to do.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.

Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.