John Quotes

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

Writing is hustling of another kind.

Europe is my continent, not my country

The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.

I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.

Even though it might appear otherwise from what I've said, I am not a racist. I should not have said what I did because it is not what I believe in my heart.

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

The use of animals in medical research remains absolutely essential.

The hardest thing about movies is doing take 12, 13, and 14, and finding new ways to do the same lines. So the early takes are actually easier and I think there's more surprises in them.

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

Winners make commitments, losers make excuses.

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.