John Quotes

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

Design provides solutions, art asks questions.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

Some people eat eggs, I wear them.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.