John Donne Quotes

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

John Donne

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Myself

• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • May
  • Together
  • Man

• Papa died when he was 77.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Died
  • He
  • Papa

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Government
  • Special
  • Development

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Gay
  • Red
  • Living

• I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Rising

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Family
  • Health

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Connections

• You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Know
  • Fans

• When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • People

• I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.

  

  I. A. Richards
  • Purpose

• When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Aloud

• I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

  

  John Donne
  • Poetry