John Carlos Quotes

1. "I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models."
Author: Brandi Carlile

2. "After over six hundred hours of listening, John knew two more things: That the most profound truth lay in the labyrinths that coiled behind a green door in the interviewee's mind the very second that Alfred Kinsey said, "Tell me about your fantasies"; and, two, that with the proper information and the correct stimuli he could get carefully chosen people to break through those doors and act out their fantasies, past moral strictures and the boundaries of conscience, taking him past his already absolute knowledge of mankind's unutterable stupidity into a new night realm that he as yet was incapable of imagining. Because the night was there to be plundered; and only someone above its laws could exact its bounty and survive."
Author: James Ellroy

3. "Let me do the talking," I yelled to John over the wail. "I have a way with cops.""Yes, you do," he growled at me [...]"
Author: Jennifer Echols

4. "Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two."
Author: Junipero Serra

5. "King John won't need any persuading that the French have a hand in this. From what I've heard, if a bean gives him a bellyache he swears it was a French one."
Author: Karen Maitland

6. "If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is what happens when everything is flipped over and spilling everywhere and you can't find a towel or a sponge or your "inside" voice."
Author: Kelly Corrigan

7. "Monkey John looked at the dead boy. "By God, life is cheap up here on the goddamned Canadian River.""Cheap," Blue Duck answered. "And it might get cheaper."
Author: Larry McMurtry

8. "We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing."
Author: Michael Davis

9. "I understand, gentlemen," John Kennedy said. "If you find that life it's not easy, let me tell you, death is worse."
Author: Pierre Marshesso

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