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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