Sir John Harrington Quotes

#1. A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

Robert Greene

#2. When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

Leo Kottke

#3. Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

Jane Hirshfield

#4. And then God, in his benevolence, tasked Adam with the nasty business of nomenclature, calling beasts of land and water and air for what he saw fit, giving them names, calling them names, pegging down their potentials to classifications, to genus, to species.

Carlos Malvar

#5. If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it.

John Candy

#6. For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.

John Milius

#7. It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Harvey Pekar

#9. Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Isaac Asimov

#10. I like walking into a smaller hotel where the desk clerk recognizes me.

John Pritzker

#11. The boy's no good. The boy is just no good. / but he takes you in his arms and pushes your flesh around to see if you could ever be ugly to him.

Richard Siken

#12. Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Eddie Trunk

#13. Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.

Jeffrey Gitomer