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!

John Joseph Lydon

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• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Movie
  • First

• I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Sleep
  • Enough
  • Skin

• Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Steal

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• The fashion cycle is outdated.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Cycle
  • Outdated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?

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Book

• He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Fool
  • Others
  • Himself

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • 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.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Profound
  • Danger

• I think people, especially in the Muslim community, are rightly cautious any time you hear, 'Oh, there's going to be a Muslim character.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Pretty
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Son
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Irving Thalberg

• 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.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Men
  • Heart

• I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • She

• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Fiction
  • Aim
  • Distinction

• I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

  

  Emile Hirsch
  • Movie
  • Independent
  • Green

• From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• They had always been there, just hidden, sometimes, sadly, self-hating, but always there. The women, the church within the church, like Mary in the Sacristy, with their own secret rites. The thread wound back through a labyrinth, through thousands of years, into a ball, round and bright as the full moon.

  

  Elizabeth Cunningham
  • Church
  • Moon
  • Secret

• Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

  

  John Joseph Lydon