John Lennon Quotes

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

John Lennon The Beatles

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• I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It's like a festive home for me.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Life
  • Home
  • Culture

• I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• The introduction of heartache began as a child.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Heartache

• That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Night
  • Comforting
  • Grenades

• Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Understanding
  • Imagination
  • Company

• This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Thoughts
  • Spirit
  • London

• A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Book
  • Reader
  • Material

• It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Minutes

• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Sweet

• Express your ideas with the world

  

  Mitchel Resnick
  • World
  • Ideas

• Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

  

  Hesham Qandil
  • World
  • Excellence
  • Becoming

• If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

  

  Susan Bysiewicz
  • Woman
  • Leader
  • Confident

• Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Song
  • Memories

• I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Laugh

• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Dream
  • The Beatles

• When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Kid
  • Hippie
  • Embarrassing

• When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • God
  • Church
  • Places

• I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • The Beatles