Quotes About John

I see Mark's passion story as the earliest. Matthew and Luke each had a copy of Mark, and I see the additions that they made to Mark's passion story as imaginative elaborations.30 I have no opinion about whether John's passion story shows knowledge of Mark or whether it is completely independent. Thus I see Mark as the foundational narrative, and I turn now to comments about the main elements of his story of the passion.

We went into the yard through a stone gateway, and John asked for Mr. York.

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

Or they hope that I will find some sort of psychiatric explanation that can be treated so that the experiences can be stopped.

Psychiatric examinations and numerous psychological tests have failed to reveal forms of mental illness that could, conceivably, explain the abduction phenomenon (Mack 1995; Bloecher, Clamar, and Hopkins 1985; Parnell and Sprinkle 1990; Rodeghier, Goodpastor, and Blatterbauer 1991; Zimmer 1984; Spanos, Cross, Dickson, and DeBreuil 1993).

Nothing in my work on UFO abductions has surprised me as much as the discovery that what is happening to the earth has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the universe.

After many years of experience it is our impression that not more then 10 to 15 percent of the population would be willing to accept a psychosomatic diagnosis.

Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet today.

I named him Poodle, beginning a long tradition of functional pet naming.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.

You don't often see Bobby Kelleher completely flustered, but he was that time.

She's in that show on the CW, what's it called, Uncovered? She plays a teenage hooker." "A hooker?" Stevie said. "A teenager?" Susan Carol said. "That woman plays a teenager? You're kidding, right?

Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down

The man is a nincompoop and a fool. Even worse, he took me for a fool as well.

The dog, he thought, was wiser and more kindly natured than he was.

Nothing like a little wanton destruction to get boys excited, Thorn thought, smiling to himself.

was an old Ranger joke and they all smiled.

My name is Gilan. The King wants to see you.

Although it does help if your intelligence force is also intelligent.

Don't annoy me, little dog, Tug seemed to say. I know your mother.