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You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.
-- John Woods

I love you enough to nauseate several poets.
-- Sheridyn Woodward

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
-- Woody Allen

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats

Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
-- Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
-- Woody Allen

All good work is done in defiance of management.
-- Bob Woodward

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
-- Woody Allen

Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
-- Woody Allen

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore

"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
-- Woody Allen

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen (Without Feathers, 1976)

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
-- John Galsworthy

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-- John Ciardi

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill

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

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen ("Without Feathers")

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-- John Gall ("Systemantics")

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen

While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.
-- John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE)

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John Gardner

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
-- John Adams

Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
-- John Masefield

"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."
-- John Updike

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Drive in no traffic and leave the turn signal on, it doesn't make any difference"
-- John Glenn (on why space would be a good place for seniors to live)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

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

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

"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

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987

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

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
-- Henry Van Dyke

What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?
-- David Gunter