All Quotes

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
‐‐ Carter Burwell

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
‐‐ Carter Burwell

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.
‐‐ John Updike

John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

John Boehner is a friend.
‐‐ Dan Webster

John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing.
‐‐ Tommy Lee

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
‐‐ Russell Banks

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
‐‐ George Haven Putnam

John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none of us would have had the heart to do. His moral leanings were unquestionably admirable.
‐‐ James McBride

John Brown was the abolitionist to end all abolitionists. People thought he was crazy. He was like John Coltrane playing free jazz, exhausting all possibilities in his approach to harmony and improvisation.
‐‐ James McBride

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

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

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.
‐‐ Donald Pleasence

John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his extraordinary physical feats inspired Superman's creators. Remember: before Superman could fly or turn back time, he was nothing less than an earthbound crime-fighting John Carter in tights.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'
‐‐ Meredith Ostrom

John Chatterton is the kind of person who always seems to be up to some kind of incredible adventure.
‐‐ Robert Kurson

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
‐‐ Eric Idle

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'
‐‐ Stephen Merchant

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
‐‐ Terry Gilliam

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!
‐‐ Alan Vega

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.
‐‐ John Byrne

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
‐‐ Jeremy Piven

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
‐‐ Ralph Nader

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.
‐‐ Eric Close

'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.
‐‐ Jonathan Dee

John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
‐‐ Harvey Gantt

John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.
‐‐ Harvey Gantt

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.
‐‐ Artur Davis

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley

John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
‐‐ Madison Smartt Bell

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.
‐‐ Richard Widmark

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
‐‐ Norodom Sihanouk

John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.
‐‐ Eve Golden

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.
‐‐ Gene Siskel

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
‐‐ Todd Phillips