John Quotes

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.

An extraordinary diva would never sit by herself.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

There is no policy which will ever be as effective a deterrent in the mind of the mass marauder as the advance knowledge - the re-thinking - that someone armed will likely be where he was headed.

The health of the second amendment is the primary indicator of the overall health of the nation.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

Do what you will, only do something.

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

To die with honor when one can no longer live with honor.

All is not golde that outward shewith bright.

For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

Give something that wasn't expected.

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

Anybody doing something brings something to it.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?