John Quotes

It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Better is to bow than break.

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

When the devil drives, needs must.

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

I don't really collect anything. I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Trust your instincts, and take control.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

You think you have a memory; but it has you!

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

And never forget, there is memory.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.

I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

I think this job at T-Mobile has more than anything else helped me really see and understand how to set a strategy, communicate like crazy, and then passionately lead from the front of it.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

You can acquire some measure of knowledge from various research techniques, but nothing beats living, breathing, and feeling the same things your prospect (customers) do.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.