John Lennon Quotes

The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

John Lennon The Beatles

• The Beatles
• Comprehension
• Smoking Marijuana

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• We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Our neediest students, who would not have access to college without Pell Grants, should not be further punished after enduring a natural disaster.

  

  Ric Keller
  • College
  • Students
  • Access

• Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Guy
  • Deal
  • Scared

• As I've told Tyler, there's not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We're just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I'll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.

  

  Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
  • Single
  • Place
  • Married

• The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Wealth
  • Faults
  • Employment

• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Majority
  • Seclusion

• What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Tears
  • Stupidity
  • Spectator

• I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Hands
  • Novel
  • Ghost

• Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock -

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Full
  • Time Is
  • Frock

• I don't think the Americans by and large putted very well, ... and we're only 2 down.

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • Think
  • Americans
  • Well

• Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Power
  • Animal
  • Human Nature

• It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Business
  • Artist
  • Humanity

• Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Country
  • England
  • Received

• The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God
  • Relationship
  • The Beatles

• I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

  

  Eric Hutchinson
  • My Family
  • The Beatles
  • Pop Music

• The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • The Beatles
  • Comprehension
  • Smoking Marijuana