John Donne Quotes

Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures?

John Donne

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • New
  • New York

• The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Financial
  • Discover

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Tourism

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
  • Wrong

• I pretty much move around wherever I like.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Wherever

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Nice

• You know, I go around the country a lot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Country
  • You
  • Know

• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
  • Imagination
  • Challenge

• That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Me

• Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Popular
  • Matter
  • Start

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People

• The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Character
  • Guy

• 'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone.

  

  Philip Baker Hall
  • Honor

• Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, 'Hey, I don't care, whatever,' but if I didn't turn my homework in, I would panic.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.

  

  Emmett Shear
  • Culture
  • Growing
  • Dark

• The one thing that I'm always gonna promote is, 'Don't look at a fellow black man as an enemy.' And it's hard. It's really hard, though, when you're coming up. It's something that you have to teach yourself and learn.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
  • Up
  • Black
  • Enemy

• And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • Good
  • Art
  • Science

• If this doesn't work, ... we will call for the F.D.A. to take this drug off the market.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Drug
  • Market
  • FDA

• Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures?

  

  John Donne