John Quotes

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

I've been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He's all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff - I just like to do it.

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.

A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Fear is a great motivator.

To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

I think you learn more from looking at how things occurred and what happened afterward, not just at the event

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.