Quotes of: John-wooden Keyword

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

Mark Skousen

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

Noreena Hertz

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

Jack Canfield

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.

Max Heindel

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of readin...

Walter Kirn

You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

Gabriel Basso

The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Joseph Kosinski

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

Trey Parker

Just think for a moment if science really could move in the field of authenticity of works of art. There would be a cultural revolution to say the least, but also, I would say, a market revolution, let me add.

Maurizio Seracini

Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.

Jack of Hearts

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Milton: Introductions

...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere. (Year 2036 John Titor)

John Titor A Time Traveler's Tale

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Knowledge And Decisions

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

The Stories of John Cheever

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

Little, Big

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Letters of John Wesley

Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow