A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.


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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
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER
Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER
He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE
Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP