Renaming John Quotes

#1. Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

William Wordsworth

#2. On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

Carroll Quigley

#3. And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Sinclair Lewis

#4. My whole career has been an act of revenge.

Ruby Wax

#5. Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Chinua Achebe

#7. When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Gautama Buddha

#8. Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

Nikki Giovanni

#9. The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. Eternity begins now.

Greg Farshtey

#11. The bedroom was as opulently decorated as the front room, with a bed large enough to hold six, and a wardrobe that should by all rights have contained a doorway to Narnia, or at least the deeper lands of Faerie.

Seanan McGuire

#12. If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

Garry Kasparov

#13. I guess Satan was the first superhero [ ... ] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.

Joe Hill

#14. Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.

Dwayne Hickman

#15. She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean.

Elizabeth Wein