John Quotes

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

That's the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.