John Locke Quotes
You must do nothing before him, which you would not have him imitate. If any thing escape you, which you would have pass as a fault in him, he will be sure to shelter himself under your example, and shelter himself so as that it will not be easy to come at him, to correct it in him the right way.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
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You know, I'm really not that bright.
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Let me close by reminding you of what Newton actually did on the day that he conceived
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There is a saying 'justice delayed is justice denied'. Everyone knows of it, you do too. I have done three major things in Gujarat. I have increased court hours by 30 minutes every day; reduced court vacations by seven days; started evening courts with the same infrastructure.
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There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
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I can smell burning flesh … and I hope to God it's human.
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I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.
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Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.
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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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You must do nothing before him, which you would not have him imitate. If any thing escape you, which you would have pass as a fault in him, he will be sure to shelter himself under your example, and shelter himself so as that it will not be easy to come at him, to correct it in him the right way.
