John Walker Quotes

#1. Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.

Jay Leno

#2. American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

Jay Leno

#3. A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.

Jay Leno

#4. John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.

Jimmy Fallon

#5. Did you hear about this 20-year-old kid named John Walker from Northern California who was apparently fighting for the Taliban? ... It didn't take long for the TV networks to jump on this Walker thing. CBS has a new show: 'Walker: Taliban Ranger.'

Jay Leno

#6. John Walker, while he was in Afghanistan, told people his goal was to have four wives ... Do we need any further proof that this guy is out of his mind? Four wives? That's how al Qaeda gets you to become a suicide bomber.

David Letterman

#7. We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.

Ann Coulter

#8. The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.

Matthew Fox

#9. Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.

Newt Gingrich

#10. The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

#11. I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

John E. Walker

#12. My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

John E. Walker

#13. A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

Howard Hawks

#14. Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

Norman Finkelstein

#15. John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (New York: Walker and Co., 1998), 94.

Tom Vanderbilt

#16. I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

Hillary Clinton

#17. In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

John E. Walker

#18. When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

John O'Hara

#19. I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Paul Verhoeven

#20. The winner of the Westminster Dog Show gets to drink champagne - out of the toilet.

David Letterman

#21. You cannot spend 2,000 years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we're not interested in it anymore.

Martin Walser

#22. I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be ... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

John Walker Lindh

#23. But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforting.

Arthur Ransome

#24. I guess sometimes God just needs to laugh

Zach Braff

#25. I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

Kemmons Wilson

#26. It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

John Walker Lindh

#27. Heck, I drank no more than John Wayne or Ward Bond or Spencer Tracy or Alan Ladd or Robert Walker. But it got me into a lot more trouble.

John Agar

#28. Oh come on!" I said. "If Walker couldn't control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I've been around. I've stepped on worse things than you! I've faced angels, from Above and Below! I don't bow down to anyone! I'm John Taylor!

Simon R. Green

#29. Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma if you're right. And if you're really lucky, you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#30. In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

John E. Walker

#31. Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Alfred North Whitehead

#32. These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.

John E. Walker

#33. Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

Carolyn Forche

#34. A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.

John Litwinovich

#35. I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

John Walker Lindh

#36. She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle class values make me sick'.

John A. Walker