John Quotes
People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.
Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.
I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.
Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.
Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.
You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.
Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.
It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
Make me like a little child, Simple, teachable, and mild; Seeing only in Thy light; Walking only in Thy might!
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.
The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.
Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.
Trying harder doesn’t always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.
I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.