John Quotes

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?

The joy late coming late departs.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

Uninvited criticism is insult.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The pedigree's pretty high. For people who are really scary movie fans, this is nirvana. If you're in the mood to get scared, just watch this every week. It'll creep you out.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

I'm following a real event and real people.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

Democracy will be dead by 1950.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

I've seen more convincing wigs on William Shatner.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.