John Quotes

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass.

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

I know very well what I am about and that my skies have not been neglected, though they often failed in execution - and often no doubt from over anxiety about them.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.

Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you. This rule is absolute and may be broken only at your peril.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Possessed me, and were long and loath at going: A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart, And in the wood the furious winter blowing.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

In the future, there is no future.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.

When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.

When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.