Richard Gordon John

Famous quotes containing the words richard, gordon and/or john:

    “Misery loves company.”
    —Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)

    “It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.”
    —Harry Gordon Frankfurt (b. 1929)

    “People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”
    —John Cheever (1912–1982)