John Quotes

To get the right answer, it helps to ask the right question.

[Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.

Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.

I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

Lita on the other hand, she's rated NC-17, which means No Cold sores in 17 days.

Welcome to the New Raw!

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

What's the bleedin' point?

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

Acting may be how I've made my living, but music has always been my passion.

I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them.

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.