John Donne Quotes

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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• Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Why
  • Know
  • Doing

• My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • School
  • Why
  • Small

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Day
  • Thought
  • Sun

• I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Good
  • Why
  • Friends

• No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Fashion
  • Sun

• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Health
  • Depressed

• It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Why
  • Job
  • High

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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  • More
  • Many

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
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  • Doubt

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• Why can't I just eat my waffle?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • Just
  • Eat

• No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Singing

• That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Actress

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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  • Proud
  • Hispanic

• My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

  

  Jasmila Zbanic
  • Truth

• I was never a hippy, per se.

  

  Bill Nighy

• Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Choices

• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  

  John Donne
  • Why
  • Sun
  • Fool