John Lennon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
-
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
-
The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
-
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
-
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
-
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
-
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
-
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
-
I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
-
I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
-
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
-
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
-
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
-
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
-
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
-
A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
-
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
-
You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
-
If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
-
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
-
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
-
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
-
There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?
-
We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.
