Quotes About John

wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

maple. I wasn't going to get the old samurai sword out and chase him.

Lots of people imagine wrongly that 'My Favorite Things' is one of my compositions; I would have loved to have written it, but it's by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

Me a TV star? I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world.

Lisp was John McCarthy's invention.

Stanford was out; John McCarthy was as unenthusiastic about the network as ever.

universal laws prescribe how things will behave not, like human laws, how they ought to behave.

Time is the random wind that blows down the long corridor, slamming all the doors.

Golly, I could drink a cup of coffee," said Mac. "We'll have swell coffee in Seattle, damned if we won't, Mac.

Yet if a Poem have a Genius, it will force its own reception in the World.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

DEFINITION 1-2. The set S has a topology (or is topologized) provided that, for every point p in S and every subset X of S, the question "Is p a limit point of X?" can be answered.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II

The comfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits

Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.

The only way to improve Noose's favorite courtroom was to burn it.

the eight warrior cops and their chief are terminated before the civil trial, they would likely become hostile witnesses against the City.

Such is the nature of my daily reading. I haven't had the luxury of finishing a novel in years.

Mr. John Wilbanks, a prominent lawyer in town and longtime friend of the Bannings.

único que queda es la providencia de remisión que hemos solicitado al Supremo.

John D. MacDonald is a favorite of mine, especially his Travis McGee series