John Joseph Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Quotes
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
Quotes to Explore
-
'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
-
I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
-
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
-
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
-
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
-
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
-
The fashion cycle is outdated.
-
After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
-
I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
-
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
-
Our duty is to be patient.
-
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.
-
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
-
I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'
-
My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.
-
My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.
-
Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.
-
Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
-
We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.
-
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
-
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends.
-
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
-
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.
-
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
