John Quotes

Halifax against Spurs, the original David against Goliath confrontation

It's as if there's a magnet on the outside of the posts and bar.

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.

Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.

Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Time hath a taming hand.

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Man is emphatically self-made.

God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.