John Quotes

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

I've met Nicole Kidman, Elton John, loads of people.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

The vote by the Judiciary Committee reflects the fact that John Roberts is an exceptional nominee with a conservative judicial philosophy - a philosophy that represents mainstream America.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.