J. W. N. Sullivan Quotes

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

The best government is that which governs least.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

I met a congressman who claimed that he could introduce me to two people who saw Amelia Earhart.

I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.