John Quotes

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

Winning is a great deodorant.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

There was a hidden narrative I felt we could get into, It's about an accessible world. Family and relationships are accessible subjects.

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

The best feeling is watching a real football game, because the games they show in the movies aren't real.

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

Political suicide can end a career.

"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

I don't mind tracksuits. At the track.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

I don't need to be liked.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.