Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blon...
JOHN LYDON I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
JOHN LYDON I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on ...
JOHN LYDON My words are my bullets.
JOHN LYDON I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serio...
JOHN LYDON 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracia...
JOHN LYDON I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud...
JOHN LYDON The so-called alleged 'art' of the video - well, the video has killed the radio star, but th...
JOHN LYDON Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordio...
JOHN LYDON Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there fo...
JOHN LYDON I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My w...
JOHN LYDON Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals comin...
JOHN LYDON I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.
JOHN LYDON Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not so...
JOHN LYDON If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.
JOHN LYDON I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten....
JOHN LYDON I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like bei...
JOHN LYDON It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got ...
JOHN LYDON I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with we...
JOHN LYDON I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that...
JOHN LYDON Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of mak...
JOHN LYDON I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
JOHN LYDON You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.
JOHN LYDON You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I se...
JOHN LYDON I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that....
JOHN LYDON Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who ...
JOHN LYDON When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsens...
JOHN LYDON It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get i...
JOHN LYDON Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they'...
JOHN LYDON We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really do...
JOHN LYDON I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
JOHN LYDON Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept.
JOHN LYDON The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, w...
JOHN LYDON I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to he...
JOHN LYDON I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell t...
JOHN LYDON As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to featur...
JOHN LYDON I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
JOHN LYDON It's nice to be irritated. It's a very joyous thing.
JOHN LYDON Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that bein...
JOHN LYDON Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.
JOHN LYDON I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there a...
JOHN LYDON Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
JOHN LYDON I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
JOHN LYDON Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. ...
JOHN LYDON I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they'...
JOHN LYDON Live music is healthy.
JOHN LYDON My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pisto...
JOHN LYDON I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any...
JOHN LYDON I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.
JOHN LYDON I never take any commitment lightly, and I certainly don't take my wife lightly. I never did and...
JOHN LYDON I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack ...
JOHN LYDON I've always despised the hippies.
JOHN LYDON Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just an...
JOHN LYDON One time I went down there, the local priest came round, this freakish Jesuit monk. He’d just come...
JOHN LYDON I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.
JOHN LYDON These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in fro...
JOHN LYDON Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.
JOHN LYDON We're Sex Pistols, we ain't fake.
JOHN LYDON It's all a stunt and they'll get hurt.
JOHN LYDON With two more guys on the court who might review Roe and put it back where it belongs, we're seeing ...
JOHN LYDON Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I...
JOHN LYDON My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.
JOHN LYDON Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cyni...
JOHN LYDON You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's some...
JOHN LYDON I was on the dole for a very short time, for about two weeks. I didn’t want to be lining up in the...
JOHN LYDON I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I t...
JOHN LYDON I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmos...
JOHN LYDON I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they...
JOHN LYDON I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
JOHN LYDON It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me ho...
JOHN LYDON Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all....
JOHN LYDON If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly...
JOHN LYDON A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people i...
JOHN LYDON The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense ...
JOHN LYDON You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be t...
JOHN LYDON Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
JOHN LYDON I love American ski resorts because they're open to everyone, are not incredibly expensive. They...
JOHN LYDON I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unha...
JOHN LYDON Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit a...
JOHN LYDON I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sha...
JOHN LYDON You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, th...
JOHN LYDON I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
JOHN LYDON ROTTEN It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloo...
JOHN LYDON ROTTEN My reputation is a media creation.
JOHN LYDON ROTTEN It's not shaken my own faith in things even if you do always question what you're doing as a matter ...
JOE LYDON Oh, I'm just going to catch up with him and throw him to Andy to take care of.
JOE LYDON We have to rely on what we've done in the past. To do fresh things at this stage would only confuse ...
JOE LYDON I accept that perception is there and I agree with it. We'd all like to play a more attractive, expa...
JOE LYDON Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our ago...
SUSAN GORDON LYDON ‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN ‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural ...
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN ‎There is nothing sweeter than finding the right person to love and cherish and to share your hope...
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN Every relationship must have a starting point so that past errors may remain in the past.
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN ‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.
MARY LYDON SIMONSEN My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN