John Quotes
Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.
...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters.
Macadamia nuts can be fatal to dogs, sometimes causing seizures and kidney failure.
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be, ' restored the status quo.
Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.
Well, I miss my wife, you know, " I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The sense you’re where you’re supposed to be, with someone you’re supposed to be with.
The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like,
I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.
When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.
The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.
Magic is not something supernatural, but part of the field dynamics of nature.
...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...
Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two.
Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.
We women have intuition, " Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.
There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.
fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested
When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.
I ask for a decreedooming my bitter enemies to laughteradvanced against them.
People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.
Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.
I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no harm in envying even your best friend a little
...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...
...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...
When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed, could not even fill the hunger of a child.
It is almost as thoughsomething else is breathingquite close by, invisibly.The mystery of the names…Albizzia. Gleditsia.Aucuba japonica. AndI am listening, seeing. Seeing, like someone twice alive.
...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...
...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...
...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...
For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.
Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.
...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...
...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...
...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...