John Quotes

You can be harsh on your players and still coach, but it is easier when you are kind to them.

Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .

Without style, there can be no identity.

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of it as a kind of relational glue.

Think of loyalty as a kind of relational glue.

Work isn't really work for me. I hate to tell you this, but I've never liked the weekend in my life. I was enthusiastic about Monday morning from the day I left college.

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

Work isn't really work for me.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

Family comes first for me in every single way.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

I grew up with the Boston vibe and the Catholic vibe. I don't want to put anybody out.

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.

I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

I've always loved those movies where somebody thinks they want something, and then they realize that the thing they really want is right in front of them.

I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

I have people printing that I have. Never been engaged. As far as what I think of marriage, I think it's great. I think I'd like to be married some day, but I'll start with love.