Quotes About John

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

Quite frankly, I'm a member of the investigative committee, one of the senior members of the panel. I don't take our investigative facts and information from a magazine or some article.

I get the 'Daily Mirror,' purely and simply because they put the Racing Post prices in.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.

Close to the Cross was the only Apostle present, John, whose face was like a cast moulded out of love; Magdalen was there too, like a broken flower, a wounded thing. But foremost among all-God pity her!-was His own mother. Mary, Magdalen, John; innocence, penitence, and priesthood; the three types of souls forever to be found beneath the Cross of Christ.

The son of God chose Peter, who knew sin, rather than the beloved John, as the rock upon which to build His Church, that sinners and the weak might never have excuse to despair.

Jesus' appearance before the Sanhedrin and his condemnation to death is seriously undermined by the repeated contradictions and historical and legal improbabilities of Mark's account, which has been copied in substance by Matthew. Luke and John further muddy the waters. John ignores any trial of Jesus by a Jewish court and Luke omits the night session of the Sanhedrin. However

The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

I had done some work on index funds in my senior thesis at Princeton in 1951.

You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps.

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written.

'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.