Quotes About John

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.

Jesus teaches us what the Father teaches Him (John 7:17), He speaks what the Father speaks (John 8:2–11), and He says what the Father says (John 14:10). All of which comes from the Father through the Spirit: "For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit" (John 3:34).

They worked out a new deal between another group of investors (headed by John Peirce) and the Plymouth Company, which owned the land.

John shows us the way when he writes, "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues'" (Rev. 18:4). God calls us to get out of Babylon—that is, to separate

The villagers said that John Redding was a queer child.

I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

John Hedley Brooke's Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the mattress. Yes," I said. "I think it was. Certainly, it's written that way. The end of the book is there before the beginning's hardly started.

John was born to a priestly family of impeccable credentials. With approximately eighteen thousand priests in first-century Israel, the opportunity that Zechariah received to minister in the Holy Place in the temple was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The angel's announcement identified the child to be born as special.

Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her – she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John's success. But that wasn't the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John's self-confidence and left him angry and hurt.

John had told the other Beatles he was breaking up the group, prompted, apparently, by the chaos at Apple.

Paul didn't trust Klein and refused to sign with him, turning instead to his new father-in-law, Lee Eastman, who was also a successful showbusiness lawyer. This had led to enormous tension between John and Paul.

I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

During my first tour of Vietnam, John Steinbeck and his wife were there and we had Christmas dinner together.

The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.

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

Scripture defines sin as a transgression of God's law, and it is God's law that defines right and wrong. Romans 3:20 says, "Through the law we become conscious of sin," and John writes, "In fact, sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4). To break God's command is to do wrong, that is, to sin.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?