John Quotes

The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to offer.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.

Love is hope without doubt, hate is fear turned out.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.

I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world.

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

All salvation is temporary

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

Eternity bids thee to forget.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

He missed her like crazycakes.

He missed his imagined future.

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska