John Jr. > John's Quotes

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“There’s something heroic in a woman–-Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Marianne Faithfull–-who takes great beauty, smokes it down to the filter and grinds it out under her sole.”
― Farran Smith Nehme

“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Information wants to eat brie.”
― Evgeny Morozov

“It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.”
― Philip K. Dick

“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”
― Leon Trotsky

“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

“Jet lag results from our rapid motion between time zones, across the lines that we have drawn on the earth that equate light with time, and time with geography. Yet our sense of place is scrambled as easily as our body’s circadian rhythms. Because jet lag refers only to a confusion of time, to a difference measured by hours, I call this other feeling ‘place lag’: the imaginative drag that results from our jet-age displacements over every kind of distance; from the inability of our deep old sense of place to keep up with our aeroplanes.”
― Mark Vanhoenacker, Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot

“I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“We are out of munitions, We will have to depend on theoretical physics.
(Spoken in the heat of battle by Sammuil Petrovitch in Theories of Flight”
― Simon Morden