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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.


John Betjeman

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JOHN SCALZI Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t...
JOHN LEGEND