John Donne Quotes

Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man; this minute I was well, and am ill, this minute.

John Donne

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• I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • City
  • Habits

• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Want
  • Thoughts

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • People
  • Real
  • School

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Answers

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Work Hard

• I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Want

• The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Age
  • Science

• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Crazy

• If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • You

• Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Color
  • Red
  • Green

• I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Family

• In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• The question, 'What is the purpose thereof?' cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Question
  • Purpose

• Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Why

• Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

  

  Janet Frame
  • Time
  • Help

• My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Ideas
  • Obligation
  • Entertain

• If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

  

  Wesley Earl Craven
  • People
  • Theater
  • Annoying

• No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

  

  Nathanael West
  • Dream
  • Unfortunate
  • Troubled

• Variable, and therefore miserable condition of man; this minute I was well, and am ill, this minute.

  

  John Donne