John Quotes

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

Keep your eye on eternal goals

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.

Nothing spiritual to write? Then have spiritual experiences.

Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

You should not bear insults.

If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.

All life is a test one way or the other.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.