Top 100 Quotes About John
#1. John Cleese ... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it.
John Cleese
#2. You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.
Don Imus
#3. Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. - John Tyree
Nicholas Sparks
#4. You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
#5. Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.
Kevin Keegan
#6. Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.
Cynthia Ozick
#7. Whatsoever the Lord Jesus commands you, do it, irrespective of consequences. Many who greatly delight to expatiate on the "Whosoever" of John 3:16, are not so much concerned about the "Whatsoever" of John 2:5, "Whatsoever He saith unto you, do it.
Alexander Marshall
#8. This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits ... on the croquet lawn]
Paul Clark
#9. George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
Mark Shields
#10. My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
Clint Eastwood
#11. All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
Caprice Crane
#12. As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
Zakk Wylde
#13. John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
Brian Eno
#14. The first period of excitement, which began with the Dartmouth meeting, was later described by John McCarthy (the event's main organizer) as the "Look, Ma, no hands!" era.
Nick Bostrom
#15. He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name - John Goetchius - but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was.
Katherine Paterson
#16. Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the back yard, they actually listened to you.
J.R. Ward
#17. My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards ...
Jon Krakauer
#18. A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.
Tom Gjelten
#19. 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
#20. I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Otis Rush
#21. Wanting to change only the British position at the top of the American social structure, John Adams feared that a "rage for innovation" would consume what was worthwhile about American culture.
John Ferling
#22. I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#23. Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development.
Rebecca Solnit
#24. John!" cried Lady Greystoke, running toward him, "how could I have been mistaken? I-" but the rest of the sentence was lost as Tarzan of the Apes sprang into the room and taking his mate in his arms covered her lips with kisses.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#25. Dad loves his father, but he says he has always been the same. Even when his kids were young, Grandpa John was always negative. If Grandma is a glass half full, Grandpa is a totally empty glass with a desert at the bottom of it. Despite
Kaz Campbell
#27. John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.
Milton Friedman
#28. This is the silliest thing I've heard since the cat yoga craze a couple of years ago. I went right out and bought a cat yoga instruction book and tiny terry-cloth headband and renamed my girl cat 'Olive Neutered John,' which she didn't think was funny. Cats have no sense of humor.
Celia Rivenbark
#29. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#30. I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.
Mink Stole
#31. John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
Tom Brokaw
#32. Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.
L.M. Montgomery
#33. Eph 4:9 The fact that he ascended confirms his victorious descent into the deepest pits of human despair. [In John 3:13: "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, even the son of man." All mankind originates from above; we are anouthen, from above.
Francois Du Toit
#34. You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.
Shawn Amos
#35. Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.
Jack Canfield
#36. My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
Sarah Pinborough
#37. Tennis has to be very careful.Not everyone is a computer, it is very good we have John McEnroe. I hope we have a couple more.
Boris Becker
#38. Blessed are those who believe without seeing me. (John 20:29 NLT) God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. (James 1:12 NLT)
Cherie Hill
#39. Indeed, we have all received grace after grace from His fullness. John 1:16
Beth Moore
#40. A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
Edward Coke
#42. No." John Newton's eyes warmed. "One has no guarantee that the path the Lords places us on will be the easy one, Elizabeth. Obedience to His will is a glorious thing, but, aye, it has many challenges. Yet," and he smiled fully, "in the end, no one can doubt that it is the best way.
Alicia A. Willis
#43. I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.
Elisabeth Shue
#44. Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment - and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!
Audra McDonald
#45. When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
John Taliaferro
#46. One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?
Robert Webb
#47. Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
Henry David Thoreau
#48. It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".
Gordon Lightfoot
#49. Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my own vocals without getting embarrassed. Even John Lennon wasn't comfortable on hearing his voice.
Hans-Peter Lindstrom
#50. John McCain ... looks like a fraud to me.
Young Jeezy
#51. You should not forget that without all the work in law and economics, a great part of which has been supported by the John M. Olin Foundation, it is doubtful whether the importance of my work would have been recognized.
Ronald Coase
#52. For thirty-six of the forty years between 1800 and 1840, either Jefferson or a self-described adherent of his served as president of the United States: James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.32 (John Quincy Adams, a one-term president, was the single exception.)
Jon Meacham
#53. I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.
Hugh Laurie
#54. He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.
Chris Martin
#55. John Rawls (1971) called the publicity principle. In its simplest form, the publicity principle bans government from selecting a policy that it would not be able or willing to defend publicly to its own citizens.
Richard H. Thaler
#56. Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
Geezer Butler
#57. 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
#58. You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.
Seth Green
#59. I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.
Ishmael Reed
#60. On this scale, according to John McPhee in Basin and Range, the distance from the fingertips of one hand to the wrist of the other is Precambrian. All of complex life is in one hand, and in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.
Bill Bryson
#61. John raised an eyebrow. "So you wouldn't date someone like you?"
"Oh, hell, no. I'm insane, but that would be nuts.
Forrest Carr
#62. With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
Noel Gallagher
#63. As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
Casper Van Dien
#64. What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.
Ed Fallon
#65. If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.
Joe Klein
#66. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Marshall, all big men, and strong in every sense, deferred to him.
Mark David Ledbetter
#67. I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#68. As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.
Martin Luther
#69. John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.
George Eliot
#70. Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.
Jerry Weintraub
#71. My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.
Kyle Dunnigan
#72. I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.
Elizabeth Proctor
#73. I noticed John had brought along a thermos of his coffee, this "favor" already qualifying as an all-nighter. I admit, the horrific burning sensation really did keep you awake.
David Wong
#74. Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Bob Dylan
#76. [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.
Pharoah Sanders
#78. I'm a writer. These people are American nomads, forever on the move, trying to feed themselves and their families. I'm thinking about writing a book about them. My name is John Steinbeck. Perhaps you've heard of me." After
Homer Hickam
#79. We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.
Donald Sutherland
#80. Jay was attacked with peculiar venom. Near his New York home, the walls of a building were defaced with the gigantic words, 'Damn John Jay. Damn everyone that won't damn John Jay. Damn everyone that won't put up lights in the windows and sit up all night damning John Jay.
Ron Chernow
#81. I have been most industriously talking up your extraordinary powers to all my wide acquaintance,' continued Mr Drawlight. 'I have been your John the Baptist, sir, preparing the way for you!
Susanna Clarke
#82. I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
Kacey Musgraves
#83. The greatness of who we are is discovered by how we handle our mistakes. John Paul Jackson
Laura Smith
#84. But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself; - more narrow-minded and selfish.
Jane Austen
#85. But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
Taylor Swift
#86. John O'Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.
Roger Scruton
#87. Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jackie Kennedy
#88. When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
Abigail Adams
#89. John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on
Alan Green
#90. I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
Douglas Brinkley
#91. published, Beverly minister John Hale had produced
Stacy Schiff
#92. John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and oppression. The guy who invented the Frisbee, dreamt of a world where people would throw a fat, circular object at each other in order to pass the time. He succeeded.
Jon Lajoie
#93. I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.
Jayson Williams
#94. Renovations (Horror Suspense novella) John Stone
John Stone
#95. A colleague of hers had discovered that the Biblical sentence found in John 4:7 contained all the sounds in nearly every known language.
Katherine Paterson
#96. John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
M.H. Abrams
#97. Wellsie frowned. "I'd like you to stay away from him, okay? He's ... not right in a lot of ways. Do you know what I mean?"
Actually, John wasn't so sure about that. Yeah, the guy was enough to make you think fondly of the boogeyman sometimes, but clearly he wasn't all bad.
J.R. Ward
#98. John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
Teresa Heinz
#99. gloomy, pensive, discontented temper This melancholy flatters, but unmans you; What is it else but penury of soul, A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind? - JOHN DRYDEN AT
Henry Hitchings
#100. It really kind of looks like now that John Kerry is on his way to the presidential nomination. The only thing that can sink John Kerry now is an Al Gore endorsement.
Jay Leno
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