John Dryden Quotes

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

John Dryden

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• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Important
  • You
  • Patience

• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • God
  • Done
  • Politics

• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Rich

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Future
  • Present
  • Nobody

• I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Model

• There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Career
  • Years
  • Chicago

• Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Desire
  • Goal
  • Missed

• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Business
  • Man

• That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • City
  • Cat

• Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist’s business is lying.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Business
  • Free

• 'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Die

• I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Movie
  • Drawing

• I am kind of a freak of nature who has loose joints, and I was able to put my legs behind my head, and it looked weird to people when I was a kid, so I kept doing it. It's a great party gag.

  

  Doug Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Nature

• I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Influence

• If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way.

  

  Cynthia Erivo

• The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

  

  Daniel Inouye
  • Hope
  • Leadership

• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

  

  John Dryden