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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done. — D.J. Cotrona

One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere. — John Scalzi

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale. — John D. MacDonald

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

I love the John Glenn model ... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars. — Sally Ride

Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. — John Milton

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word. — John D. Rockefeller

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well. — John D'Agata

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. — John Grisham

she'd put her idea to the group, they'd needed another sherry to steady their nerves. This was getting edgy. They were considering being untruthful. — John Wiltshire

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. — John D. Rockefeller

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out. — John D'Agata

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. — John D. MacDonald

I'd rather be a little behind than a big ass. — John C. Daly

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. — John Milton

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle — John D. Barrow

The breakfast was rather silent, but not with strain. — John D. MacDonald

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky. — John Lydon

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. — John Milton

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite. — John Terry

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes. — John Marsden

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter. — John D'Agata

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck. — John D. MacDonald

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case. — John Gierach

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. — John Gay

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green. — John Dryden

We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe. — John D. Barrow

What happens when an essayist starts imagining things, making things up, filling in blank spaces, or - worse yet - leaving the blanks blank? — John D'Agata

I wish I'd drunk more champagne. — John Maynard Keynes

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion. — Elton John

A man has no right to occupy another man's time unnecessarily — John D. Rockefeller

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary. — John D. Rockefeller

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. — John D. Rockefeller

An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. — John D'Agata

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability. — John D. Rockefeller

I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky. — John D'Agata

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library. — John D'Agata

I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art. — John D'Agata

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old. — John Corbett

Charles Fort was erected in 1667 by the Duke of Ormonde. It is said to be haunted by a ghost known as the "White Lady, — St John D. Seymour

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege. — John D. Rockefeller

Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation. — John D. Clark

I'd also made the first tennis team. I was number two player in the school at 11 years of age and that didn't sit very well with people. — John Newcombe

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards. — John Barrowman

I'd rather do 'She's So Lovely' that John Cassavetes wrote versus doing 'Batman.' — Robin Wright

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet. — John D. MacDonald

The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day. — John D'Agata

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre. — John D'Agata

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. — John Myhill

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos — John Green

I wouldn't like to interview John Lennon, no, because I'd ask him one question and it'd go to another thing and I'd end up licking his face. — Liam Gallagher

When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. — John Casey

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great. — John Stamos

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were. — John D. Barrow

I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy ... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times. — John Amos

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change. — John D'Agata

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair. — John D'Agata

Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died. — John Green

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton

I look for the kind of text that doesn't look like the writer I'm considering. Plutarch is a great example. — John D'Agata

As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted. — John D'Agata

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it. — John D'Agata

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about. — John D'Agata

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is. — John D'Agata

The rain had washed the sunset time to a lambent beauty. — John D. MacDonald

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. — John Milton

I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass. — John Steinbeck

Hating all the cool kids takes an awful lots of energy and I'd given up on it a long long time ago. — John Green

Funny, that. For so long Wormwood had desired the throne and then, when he'd had it, it hadn't been worth desiring after all. — John Connolly

There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine). — John Bradshaw

She had been overtipping for as long as she'd had money. These small compensations for how fortunate she'd been. — Emily St. John Mandel

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel. — John Galliano

Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak. — John Manning

I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too. — John Lennon

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known. — John Steinbeck

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all. — John Lennon

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me. — John Lurie

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. — John Milton

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. — John D. Rockefeller

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. — John Milton

That is the flaw in my personality. Vanity. And your flaw is sentimentality. They are the flaws which will inevitably kill us both. — John D. MacDonald

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that. — John Waters

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. — John Milton

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her — Pete Best

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang. — John Le Carre

Regardless of what he was doing, no matter how candid or innocuous the photo, Haven always looked as though he'd just stopped screaming. — John Wray

Yudhisthira replies that anger leads to evil and should not be indulged; better far is forbearance. (3.30) — John D. Smith

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything. — John Irving

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next. — James D. Bradley

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it — John D. Rockefeller

I think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great. — Sterling Knight

Create the change you seek in the world.
Be an ecopreneur.
Launch your dream green business. — John D. Ivanko

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart,
you'd stop suffering when they did. — John Green

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. — John Milton