“Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out." "Yes, sir," Andrews said. "Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier… — John Williams Copy Share Image
What was so scary about it was it was still school time, the kids were walking around. There as a group of kids right there when I took off to help her. They shouldn't chase people around the neighborhoods like… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge,… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art.' Music is there for everybody. It's a river we can all put… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Dispassionately, reasonably, he contemplated the failutre that his life must appear to be. He had wanted friendship and the closeness of friendship that might… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Six times during my life has this tomb of my soul led me to the brink of that eternal darkness into which all men… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But I can see what has ensued. A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true. — John Williams Copy Share Image
You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.' — John Williams Copy Share Image
“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
I honestly haven't done all that counting. It always feels new and a wonderful honor to receive these things. It's a fresh feeling. — John Williams Copy Share Image
