John Lennon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
-
I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
-
There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
-
I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.
-
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
-
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
-
I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
-
I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
-
We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
-
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
-
Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!
-
That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
-
Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
-
'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
-
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
-
As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses.
-
'We would make our heroes shallow,' he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. 'We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.'
-
I'm very excited to have a girl.
-
For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
-
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
-
I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.
-
Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.
