John Quotes

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

I'm myself, not a label.

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

One cannot have economic growth without security.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

You are forever alone.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.

I think that if you look at places like Amsterdam and places where pot is very legal they do well with it. There is nothing taken away from it and crime is very low and all that.

You're going to find the good people and bad all around.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

It seems to be the sense that once you throw guys in prison they're not going to come out. No, they're going to come out and, you know, what kind of beast have you created from that process?