John Quotes

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

War is the trade of Kings.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

Success unshared is failure.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

I like John McCain, or he seems like a cool guy in a lot of ways. I don't agree with a lot of his policies, but he still seems like a cool guy.

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

A relationship is based on communication.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods, ' 'Madden, ' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.'

My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.

The ESPYS are about appreciating moments in sports and not looking down on it because it's maybe not your favorite athlete or your favorite team.

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.