John Wilson Sayings

#1. I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

Oksana Baiul

#2. Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold

John Wilson

#3. You asked for help," Wilson said. I also tried to blow up your ship with you in it. "That was before you knew me," Wilson said. I'm sorry about that. "I'm not going to tell you not to be sorry," Wilson said, "but I can understand wanting to get your body back.

John Scalzi

#4. I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

Brian Wilson

#5. Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

John Wilson

#6. You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

John Wilson

#7. This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love.

Kai Ashante Wilson

#8. Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

John Wilson

#9. This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

F. Paul Wilson

#10. He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.

Tom Wicker

#11. Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.

John Moulder Wilson

#12. You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

John Wilson

#13. Only a madman would try to market headache medicine today under the name John's Headache Pills. This would be insufficiently techno-marvelous. No, the name must sound like it carne out of a laboratory yesterday ... Zantistat 100, or something like that.

Douglas Wilson

#14. Lovely," Wilson said, looking at the display. "And by 'lovely,' I mean 'Oh, crap.

John Scalzi

#15. If memory serves, the last time we met there were also exploding starships," I said, to Wilson. "That's odd," Lowen said. "The last time I saw Harry, there were exploding starships, too." "It's coincidental," Wilson said, looking at Lowen and then at me.

John Scalzi

#16. But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw - one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.

Peter Stark

#17. Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

John Moulder Wilson

#18. In the seventh century, John of Damascus described the relationship of the three persons of God as perichoresis. This word literally means the circle dance.

Tobin Wilson

#19. If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.

Douglas Wilson

#20. I felt memories rising to the surface like a corpse coming up from dark water.

John Morgan Wilson

#21. Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.

John Tracy Wilson

#22. All of us should treasure his (John Dillinger) Oriental wisdom and his preaching of a Zen-like detachment, as exemplified by his constant reminder to clerks, tellers, or others who grew excited by his presence in their banks: 'Just lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Robert Anton Wilson

#23. Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.

Robert Anton Wilson

#24. There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.

John Tracy Wilson

#25. The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#26. Our work calls on us to confront, with our patients and within ourselves, extraordinary human experiences. This confrontation is profoundly humbling in that at all times these experiences challenge the limits of our humanity and our view of the world...

John P. Wilson

#27. I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet.

John Wilson

#28. Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

John Tuzo Wilson

#29. In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

John Roos

#30. I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, and then look at Remington and Ansel Adams, and I think you see a connection, certainly in the imagery of the West.

Owen Wilson

#31. John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective - a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Robert Charles Wilson

#32. The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

John McGraw

#33. I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

John Tuzo Wilson

#34. This brings me back to my question about my karma," Wilson said. "You probably set kittens on fire," Schmidt said. "And the rest of us were probably there with you, with skewers.

John Scalzi

#35. Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

Jonathan Raban

#36. There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

John Moulder Wilson