John Quotes

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to the future.

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

The only thing I get from the theatre is a sore arse.

That state of mind - of being beside yourself - is wonderful. As you get older, you're just very aware of a sense of an ending. You're grateful for every day.

The God who hates trees is the founding father of patriarchy.

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.