John Wilson > Quotes

“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
― John Wilson

“And, possessed by the tormented spirit of Ricky Ricardo, Rod Steiger plays an old Cuban don with an accent and gestures that make Al Pacino in Scarface seem subtle.”
― John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst

“„Well James,“ he said addressing me, as he does the officers in his command, informally, „it is true that many of our recent inventions will become much improved with use, and one day soon we may even have engines which do not break down with so much wheezing and groaning every two days of use, but I firmly believe that, while machines are perfectible, men are not.
Even a perfect machine must be run by men and, hence, subject to human errors. Take our situation as an example. Our machines keep us safe and warm, yet a simple mistake on our part, such as choosing one channel over another, could bring it all to naught and place us at the mercy of elemental nature. I believe we should work on the perfection of men before we worry overly about the perfection of his machines.”
― John Wilson, North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames

“An example of how stupid people admitting they’re stupid doesn’t make them any less stupid,”
― John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst

“Notah’s wife, who wears the traditional excessive mascara of her people,”
― John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst

“Imagine Love Story retold by a theatre group for the dramatically challenged.”
― John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst

“Mr. Stallone and Ms. Stone… a meeting as disastrous as the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic”
― John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywood's Worst

“solid rock and it took immense amounts of heat, pressure and time to make it act like liquid chocolate. Gneiss is a high-grade metamorphic rock, which means that it formed under conditions of extreme heat and/or pressure.”
― John Wilson, Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans: North America from Birth to Middle Age