John Quotes

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.

The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.

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 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.

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

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.