John Quotes

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

Works of genius are the first things in the world.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

The grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

So let me be thy choir, and make a moan Upon the midnight hours.

But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.

Do everything you can to learn your craft. Score student films for free, attend conferences, learn music theory - do anything and everything you can.

What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!

The heart is important at any age, I'm afraid.

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.

I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns.

It will all end very badly, Gus

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.