John Donne Quotes

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • World
  • Language
  • Someone

• I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Morning
  • Feel

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Everest
  • Forecast

• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Nerd
  • Vocabulary

• Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Home

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

  

  Victor Spinetti
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Out

• When 'Lost' was over, we expected that there'd be some people who'd really like it and other people who wouldn't. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Story

• I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Project

• The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Long
  • Value
  • Voice

• We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Looking
  • Wait

• My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Play
  • Instrument

• We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Business
  • Iron
  • Steel

• I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Profit
  • Capitalist

• Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • Black
  • Light

• Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Stop

• My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.

  

  Joie Lee
  • Real
  • School
  • Experience

• Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Different
  • Plant
  • Grows

• Be the change you're trying to create.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Create

• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

  

  John Donne