John Rickford Quotes

I had to ice my face the rest of the weekend and my bruised nose made it look like I got in a fight. Going back to class on Monday wasn't any better."Hey, Red, how's the nose doing?" John plopped down in the seat next to me like he didn't have a care in the world.I glared forward, willing myself not to look at him.
"You're the one who put it there, so if you don't mind I would like to focus on the lecture since finals are coming up."The girls in front of us glanced over their shoulders, looks of disgust on their faces.I smirked. "Don't get ahead of yourself, ladies. I fell ice skating, he's not beating me or getting me involved in
some weird sex act."That got them to turn back around. "Since when does sex involve bruises?What kind of stuff are you into,Red? ~ J. Lynn

A song is not a tool for changing a human heart in the way that a wrench is a tool for changing a bolt, but it was the tool I had, and I was the tool the OSP had.
The cansos in "Songs from Underneath" were not really as subtle as a wrench. Their primary trope was the ancient trick of making the viewpoint character a victim of oppression, because people identify passionately with a strong viewpoint character, and there is intense pleasure in identifying with the narrator of a sad story or song. In "Black Beauty" that trick had made people begin to think that beating horses was bad; it was the trope that make privileged white children burn with outrage at "Native Son" and prudes weep over prostitutes in "Elle frequentait la rue Pigalle" and "My Name is Not Bitch." They also received, at no extra cost, the delicious smug superiority of sympathizing with an underdog, unlike their less-enlightened neighbors.
Their primary ~ John Barnes

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life. ~ John Oliver

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Humanity one chooses. Men who choose inhumanity are merely upright beasts. ~ John C. Wright

In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize. ~ John Perkins

We are most alive when we're in love. ~ John Updike

After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship under the soon-to-be-famous John Gardner, the first "real writer" he had ever met. "He offered me the key to his office," Carver recalled in his preface to Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist (1983). "I see that gift now as a turning point." In addition, Gardner gave his student "close, line-by-line criticism" and taught him a set of values that was "not negotiable." Among these values were convictions that Carver held until his death. Like Gardner, whose On Moral Fiction (1978) decried the "nihilism" of postmodern formalism, Carver maintained that great literature is life-connected, life-affirming, and life-changing. "In the best fiction," he wrote "the central character, the hero or heroine, is also the 'moved' character, the one to whom something happens in the story that makes a difference. Something happens that changes the way that character looks at himself and hence the world." Through the 1960s and 1970s he steered wide of the metafictional "funhouse" erected by Barth, Barthelme and Company, concentrating instead on what he called "those basics of old-fashioned storytelling: plot, character, and action." Like Gardner and Chekhov, Carver declared himself a humanist. "Art is not self-expression," he insisted, "it's communication. ~ William L. Stull

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. ~ John Major

Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal. ~ John Fowles

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa ~ John Gunther

We're home already. ~ John Marsden

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way. ~ John Slattery

I have no Native American heritage, but I had decided as a child that my spirit guide animal would be a bear. We were both loners and fighters, at least that's how I looked at it. I don't know how the Great Bear felt about it, as I had never given him the option to say no. ~ John Conroe

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff. ~ John Poindexter

Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ John Climacus

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's. ~ Tommy John

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes. ~ John Adams

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other. ~ John Updike

This low-effort syndrome is often seen as a way that adolescents assert their independence from adults, but it is also a way that students with the fixed mindset protect themselves. They view the adults as saying, "Now we will measure you and see what you've got." And they are answering, "No you won't." John Holt, the great educator, says that these are the games all human beings play when others are sitting in judgment of them. ~ Carol S. Dweck

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won't be disappointed in me. ~ John Wayne

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. ~ John Barrymore

I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. - St. Augustine ~ John Dufresne

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. ~ John Calvin

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. ~ John Piper

And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves. ~ John Waters

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources. ~ John Petrucci

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out. ~ John Waters

How you define a problem shapes how you address it. ~ John O. Brennan

In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was. ~ John Lennon

That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing. ~ John Gimlette

Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently. ~ John Donvan

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ~ John Jay Chapman

No one in my family had ever even gone to college. ~ John Searles