John Barth Quotations

Johnson Controls is honored to be recognized by the socially responsible investment community for our commitment to sustainable business practices,

The defendants are fully aware when they violate the law and they have to notify the state. We're relying on their own reports for the violations.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.