John Quotes

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

I'm sure we can talk things out like civilized people.

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

Of course I know who you are. You're my girl. I love you.

Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.

Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

Cowboys, just like the word says.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me.

I've made over 250 pictures and have never shot a guy in the back. Change it.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

I am Duchess of Malfi still.

All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

Learn that clothes are there to suit your life, not to run

We'll run a lot of multiple sets - pro set, twin set, the box set, ... We'll run a lot of option plays and pass the ball more than in the past.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

I just love putting on a show. I get a tremendous sense of community out of it.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

Lindsay is unique in that she's a star in creating. She'll create something out of nothing, either for herself or her teammates. She's the Steve Nash of the WNBA.

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.

Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.

Examples ... which might be multiplied ad libitum, show how difficult it often is for an experimenter to interpret his results without the aid of mathematics.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.