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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.-- John Berger
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."-- Louis Kronenberger
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.-- John Burroughs
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.-- John Cerruti
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."-- John Updike
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."-- Ingrid Bergman
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."-- John Updike
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.-- John Masefield
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.-- John Woods
In case of emergency, speak in cliches.
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"-- John Stewart
The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.-- John F. Kennedy
"You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it."-- Wendell Berry
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Especially Bob Dylan.-- Jim Rosenberg
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."-- S. C. Johnson
"Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder."-- Edwin Schlossberg
Giving help doesn't mean dashing in and doing what seems like a good idea to you. It means doing what the other person wants. If what the person wants is for you leave them alone, it means doing that.-- John Fisher
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.-- Samuel Johnson
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."-- Samuel Johnson
"Not a Morning Person" doesn't even begin to cover it.
If you insist that you know what's right for a person, you are precious close to saying that their feelings aren't real, just because you don't understand them. The next stop after sentimentality is cruelty.-- John Fisher
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."-- Anne Lindbergh
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.-- Lyndon B Johnson
Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost.
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote and he will probably tell you. Ask him however why and vagueness is all.-- Bernard Levin
"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."
-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)
"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."-- Conan O'Brien
Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.-- Bertrand Russell
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."-- August Strindberg
Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.
"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."-- Bern Williams