John Quotes

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

Only With words and people and love you move at ease.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.

It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

With my brains and your looks, we could go places.

Must I tell the story of my life again?

Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].

So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

Sometimes I overtinker, which is something wrong with my brain chemistry. But in figuring out why I do that, maybe I'll make myself a better person. I doubt it.

Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.

What matters the most is what you do for free

I'm from New Jersey / I don't expect too much / If the world ended today / I would adjust.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.

When was the last good kiss you had?

I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

She was loved deeply, but not widely

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

I am a giant squid of anger.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.