John Quotes
Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.
Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
To his US Olympic team - Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.
On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.
The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.
Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.
The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.
I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.
Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for
So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.
I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?
There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn't you argue the other side?" He said, "That's true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
