John Quotes

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Love is needing to be loved.

Remember to let her into your heart.

I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.

Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!

I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years, then they expect you to pick a career.

It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.

New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

In the beginning, all the world was America.