John Quotes - page 46

It's always a joy to work with Spike. He creates an environment that's wonderful for creativity. People leave their egos at the door and just we all come from different genres and different levels within the business. It's kind of exciting to finally meet people like Common, John Cusack, Jennifer Hudson and work with them, and see what the flavors are. You know the most seasoned veterans, we always want to see what the young guys, the young crew, has to offer. If they learn something and if they bring something to the table or if they should just be written off. (Wesley Snipes)
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country. View quote
Nick Clegg
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience. View quote
Martin Esslin
In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John. View quote
Martin Ryle
There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it. View quote
Val Kilmer
It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before. View quote
Harvey Keitel
John here," the other John said, "pioneered the concept of marketing by refusing to sell any products. It drives the market insane. View quote
Max Barry
I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake. View quote
Max Barry
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy. View quote
Jason Mraz
I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film. View quote
James Woods
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. (Khaled Hosseini)
It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher. View quote
Nancy Reagan
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard. View quote
Noel Gallagher
I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. View quote
Maya Angelou
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare. View quote
Ben Bernanke
I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy. View quote
Karl Marlantes
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years. View quote
Marvin Minsky
Too many of our citizens have cause to doubt our nation's justice when the law points a finger of suspicion at groups, instead of individuals. All our citizens are created equal and must be treated equally. Earlier today, I asked John Ashcroft, the Attorney General, to develop specific recommendations to end racial profiling. It is wrong, and we will end it in America. It is wrong. View quote
George W. Bush
Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun! (Wayne Gretzky)
John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it. View quote
Eric Idle
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person. View quote
Eric Idle
John asked what he could do to help my campaign for governor. "Write a campaign song," I replied. "Okay," said John, "what's the theme?" "Our campaign slogan is 'Come together, join the party.'" "Great title," said John. He grabbed his guitar and started improvising. : Come together right now. Don't come tomorrow, don't come alone, Come together right now, Over me. :* On first proposing that John Lennon write a song for his California gubernatorial campaign; this eventually developed into the Beatles song, "Come Together", p. 281. View quote
Timothy Leary
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost. View quote
Roger Ebert