John Donne Quotes

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

John Donne

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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Technique
  • Stillness
  • Captivating

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Lucky
  • Admit

• My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Player

• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Period
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Action
  • Name
  • Without

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Live
  • True
  • Crime

• If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Find

• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

  

  Kara Walker
  • She
  • Black
  • Artist

• For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a cocoon of melancholy.

  

  Darcey Steinke
  • Children
  • Together
  • Mother

• You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Think
  • You
  • Happen

• If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Dog

• Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

  

  John Donne