John Quotes

Tony McManus is the best Celtic guitarist in the world.

You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.

Love is God and God is love, no one's below and no one's above.

The world can't take these smiles away.

The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

The word 'career' and 'actor' really don't fit in the same paragraph, let alone sentence. There is no career structure for actors.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

We think our PS3 game is better than their Xbox game.

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

I understand politicos gotta make bank. But cloistering with the Hollywood elite is not how you prove you're a man of the people.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

I want to explore different topics and present them in slightly different ways.

I never wanted to show up and just say, "Okay, what are we doing today? Let's wing it!"

When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.

You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

History is the school of statesmanship.

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

I have hurt people. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, there was damage done.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the savior to all humanity in the year 3069.

Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.