John Quotes

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

Did someone harm you in 1962.. let go of it! Control and ride the horses of anger.

And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Just imagine how suggestive things are.

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

Just because you see an iceberg does not mean that there isn't global warming.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

What can make your work interesting is as much who you are, as how you draw.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.