John Lennon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
-
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
-
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
-
Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
-
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
-
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
-
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
-
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
-
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
-
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
-
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
-
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
-
I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
-
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
-
The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
-
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
-
I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
-
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
-
The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
-
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
-
I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
-
I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.
