John Quotes

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.

Here's the biggest problem I think Donald Trump has. He's not getting enough votes today of the people who already say they don't like Hillary Clinton.

I think what it's to do is to make Donald Trump more likable.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

Chronically dysfunctioning families are also delusional. Delusion is sincere denial.

Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

Before you can beat me (this is the easy part), you have to allow yourself to win.

I order various types of breakfast and lunches. I do not just come in and order hamburgers all the time. I order the specials, pancakes, bacon and eggs.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.

My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.