John Quotes

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -​ so they promise. And I believe it, too.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

You better get yourself together, darling, and join the human race.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

I dream in colour, and its always very surreal. My dream world is complete Hieronymus Bosch and Dali. I love it, I look forward to it every night

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

It was a choice of making it or still eating chicken onstage.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.

Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

The only notes that matter come in a wad

The sounds of anger are not melodic.

When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

Children and fooles speake true.

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

It is a world to see.

All fish are not caught with flies

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

They'll score if they can just get into the endzone.