John Quotes

“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

The more I do my job, the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in -- to prevent them from leaving us.

What if we can't get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

I was thinking about the word "handle" and all the unholdable things that get handled.

Screws fall out all the time, sir. The world is an imperfect place.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Interferon.... sounds like a robot that always gets in the way.

Okay Turk, looks like someone's getting crossed off their 2 o' clock spot and getting penciled in for never! How does that feel? Does it sting? [He's hurting! Hug him, hug him now!]

Divine: How much did you pay to get in tonight?
Audience: Ten dollars.
Divine: Well now, that's eight dollars to see the show - and two dollars to f**k me right after. All line up outside the dressing room and I'll be here till Christmas!

Hold me close young Tony Danza....

Sometimes in our hyper-cynical world, we forget that it's okay to get enthusiastic about things

Back in his attic study on the second floor of Canna House, John began to go through the trunk, the suitcases and the boxes of papers he had brought back from Inverneill...The mystery was, where did the money go?

They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?

(You are live on Channel 4. Please do not swear.)

What? Not even F or B?

John James, are you gonna make an honest woman of me or what?

I hate being called Skippy