John Quotes

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Better to be happy than wise.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

You die in the middle of your life.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

We know from the material that was recovered from the bin Laden compound that bin Laden was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the U.S. homeland.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

And plenty makes us poor.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

I do a lot of to-dos and a lot of lists. I realized I had to make room for joy. So I added "to feel" items on my to-do list. That's something you can easily do.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees as an artist.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

Love is like the lion’s tooth.

I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.

Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like Job