John Quotes

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Footbal is very much an addiction for me. This is something that I really need in my life. This is something that if I don't have it, I'm not a very pleasant person to be around.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?

There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.

The worst pain in our lives comes from the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge--the things we've done that are so our of harmony with who we are that we can't bear to look at them.

Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.

Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!

Happy Anniversary, my darling Here's to a day that's filled with fun While we joyously remember When us two became a one

Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you

This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead.

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

I get dumber as the day goes along. Every second of the day that goes along, I get stupider.

I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.

I never had any desire to get a tattoo. If I was ever going to get one, I would get a plain anchor with a rope around it, the most unimaginative possible tattoo, like Popeye had.

People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.

The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.