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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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")

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

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

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

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

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