John Lennon Quotes

Well, that's rubbish, you know. Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that's just barely possible.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Bookstore
  • Clerks
  • Credit Card

• I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Energy
  • Know

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Painting
  • Look
  • Craft

• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Talk
  • Irony

• If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Law

• I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Feminist
  • Lady
  • Rather

• Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • May
  • Fire
  • Idea

• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Words
  • Know

• It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Perfect

• I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Luck

• Why do they think 'fat dyke' is an insult? To me that means, 'I'm-a eat fried chicken and pussy.'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Why

• Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid,We have built a tower of stone high into the sky,We have built a city of towers.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • High
  • City
  • Sky

• The German soldiers, that is, the workers and peasants, will in the majority of cases have far more sympathy for the vanquished peoples than for their own ruling caste. The necessity to act at every step in the capacity of 'pacifiers' and oppressors will swiftly disintegrate the armies of occupation, infecting them with a revolutionary spirit.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • German
  • Sympathy

• My trainer was a great guy … who made me want to die for an hour. My character was spending most of his life in a state of hunger, and I wanted to get a sense of that, physically and mentally.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Listening

• Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Women
  • Hide
  • Shoulder

• Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

  

  Joe Shuster

• Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

  

  Al Gini
  • Success
  • Lazy
  • Luxury

• Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Life
  • Journey

• Well, that's rubbish, you know. Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who controls me is me, and that's just barely possible.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles