John Lago Quotes

Interns are invisible. You can tell an executive your name a hundred times and that executive will never remember it because they have no respect for someone at the bottom of the barrel, working for free. ~ Shane Kuhn

So when I'm up here it feeds, for lack of a better word, nostalgia about my youth. Some people get that way when they see a baseball field or smell trout on the grill. I get that feeling from vertigo and the Freudian fantasy of falling to my certain death on the pavement. ~ Shane Kuhn

We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain. ~ Shane Kuhn

Above all, you must be humble. When you are humble, you are like a sponge, taking in the world and letting it fill you with the knowledge of what is real. Pride and arrogance are a dry sponge. You learn nothing. You think you know everything when it's not even possible to know everything. And then you're the dumbass with the surprised look on your face when someone puts a bullet in you. ~ Shane Kuhn

Sometimes you can get a shark to eat itself if you fill the water with enough blood. ~ Shane Kuhn

You always remember the things that rub you the right way or the wrong way. The positive and negative are both powerful memory reinforcement tools. Negative is more powerful than positive, which is based on your survival instincts. But you can't remember something that doesn't touch you in a positive or negative way. And this is our ultimate goal. We must learn from the wallflowers, life's most perfect unintentional losers. ~ Shane Kuhn

They're more interested in their fucking iPhones than doing their jobs. I can see the glow of their phone screens on their faces as they check e-mail, update their Facebook slaveware, dream of living, breathing, and fucking through the anonymity of text and memes. ~ Shane Kuhn

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back. ~ Elton John

I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.' Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler. ~ John Madden

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. ~ John Adams

We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals. ~ John Paul DeJoria

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. ~ John Perry Barlow

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. ~ John Sharp Williams

Touch'd with miseries
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats) ~ John Keats

I think there are lovely sunsets in hell - and that's where my desire for you is sending me ~ John Geddes

Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be ~ John Frusciante

You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. ~ John Green

Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out. ~ John Updike

There is really no spiritual message that I'm trying to convey with my music, it's just a personal thing. I really believe that the more personal we get, in a way, the more universal the implications. ~ John McLaughlin

He'd read somewhere that you burned about a thousand calories a minute running. ~ John Wiltshire

(John Cheever thought that you couldn't even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self - isn't that the truth?) ~ Mason Currey

The dog, he thought, was wiser and more kindly natured than he was. ~ John Flanagan

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries ~ John Richard Reid

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way. ~ John Sculley

[Dessie's] shop was a unique institution in Salinas. It was a woman's world. Here all the rules, and the fears that created the iron rules, went down. The door was closed to men. It was a sanctuary where women could be themselves- smelly, wanton, mystic, conceited, truthful, and interested. The whalebone corsets came off at Dessie's, the sacred corsets that moulded and warped woman-flesh into goddess-flesh. At Dessie's they were women who went to the toilet and overate and scratched and farted. And from this freedom came laughter, roars of laughter. ~ John Steinbeck

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that. ~ John Burnside

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real. ~ John Clayton

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire. ~ John Dewey

There is an endless kingdom to be enjoyed, and everlasting life to be given us, that we may live in that kingdom forever. ~ John Bunyan

If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed. ~ John Grisham

Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, "often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination - by starvation and uneven combat" as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).94 ~ James W. Loewen

This is the Eros of thought: to desire everything. It wants to leave nothing out. Thought is curious and is driven by the desire to know. It wants to draw aside the veils of illusion and see what reality conceals. Words, images and ideas are its instruments of illumination. Yet ~ John O'Donohue

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him. ~ John Barry

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it. ~ John C. Maxwell

I am a giant squid of anger. ~ John Green

Imagination need not stand as an obstacle to clear-sighted perception; on the contrary, it can be a prerequisite for recognition of the less obvious aspects of what is really there. ~ John Armstrong

No one wants you to apologize," Catherine said. "And you know we all have an interest in politics." "I don't," Wes said. "We all have an interest in politics except for Wes, ~ John Scalzi

We have a problem," he said. "Is this another 'I think we have a potential energy flow' kind of problem?" Coloma asked. "No, this is a 'Holy shit, we're all definitely going to die a horrible death in the cold endless dark of space' kind of problem," Basquez said. "We'll be right down," Coloma said. ~ John Scalzi

Pain has a funny way of focusing the mind. Only what hurts matters. ~ John C. Wright

I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways. ~ John Elkington

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up. ~ John Ortberg

As lyke as one pease is to another. ~ John Lyly

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to. ~ John McLaughlin

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. ~ John F. Kennedy

The real challenge of Christian living is not to eliminate every uncomfortable circumstance from our lives, but to trust our sovereign, wise, good, and powerful God in the midst of every situation. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

Everything that breathes, breathes by air and cannot live without air; similarly all reasonable free creatures live by the Holy Spirit, as though by air, and cannot live without Him. "Every soul is quickened by the Holy Spirit." Recognise that the Holy Spirit stands in the same relation to your soul as air stands in relation to your body. ~ John Of Kronstadt

the Torah itself sets obedience in the context of trust. ~ John E. Goldingay

When we heard at first [John Brown] was dead, one of my townsmen observed that "he died as the fool dieth"; which, pardon me, for an instant suggested a likeness in him dying to my neighbor living. Others, craven-hearted, said disparagingly, that "he threw his life away" because he resisted the government. Which ways have they thrown their lives, pray? ---such would praise a man for attacking singly an ordinary band of thieves and murderers. I hear another ask, Yankee-like, "What will he gain by it?" as if he expected to fill his pockets by their enterprise. Such a one has no idea of gain but in this worldly sense. If it does not lead to a "surprise" party, if he does not gain a new pair of boots, or a vote of thanks, it must be a failure. "But he won't gain anything by it." Well, no, I don;t suppose he could get four-and-sixpence a day for being hung, take the year round; but he stands a chance to save a considerable part of his soul- and what a soul!- when you do not. No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than a quart of blood, but that is not the market heroes carry their blood to. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The salvation for which the Bible instructs us is available "through faith in Christ Jesus." Therefore, since Scripture concerns salvation and salvation is through Christ, Scripture is full of Christ. ~ John R.W. Stott