John Sterling Quotes
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
Quotes to Explore
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I'd have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in 'Guys and Dolls,' so I took the name Nathan.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
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I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
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When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
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I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.
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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
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So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
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That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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We do not recommend suicide as a way of life.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.
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Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
