John Quotes

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.

I think I just liked the idea that I could make something, that I could communicate some sort of idea through music.

Before I started making music I felt like I couldn't affect anything in the world.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.

She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light.

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”

The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again — in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind — that which you were in at the time.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

If we quickly cast aside our constitutional form of government, then the enemy will not be the terrorists, it will be us.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

I really take acting seriously.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

I just think you should get married if you want to have some kids.

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I'm getting out of acting.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

If we can make Washington more like Texas, the whole country will be a winner.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents

People are tired of just yelling at the TV set. They actually are going to turn out and vote.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will respect the words and the meaning of the Constitution, the laws enacted by Congress and the laws enacted by state legislatures.

I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.