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.

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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

• It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Members
  • Influenced
  • 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

• 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