John Dryden Quotes

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

John Dryden

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Family
  • Team

• If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Product
  • Selling

• I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'

  

  Kate Spade
  • Smoking
  • Lady
  • Elephant

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Silly

• I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Want
  • Past
  • Will

• I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • New
  • Paid
  • Dues

• I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Independent
  • Movies
  • Working

• Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Shows
  • Started
  • Modeling

• I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Up
  • Three
  • Dogs

• Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Balance

• We don't WANT to drink and drive ... But there's no other way to get the fucking CAR back to the HOUSE!! How are we supposed to get fucking home??!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Home
  • House
  • Car

• My name is Bono and I am a rock star.

  

  Bono U2
  • Rock
  • Star

• You have babies at home.  And you have a life.  And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect.  And those are things that you have to have as a human being.

  

  Britney Spears
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Focus

• People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Good
  • Text

• The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Society
  • Taken
  • Sometimes

• Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.

  

  William Wilson Morgan
  • People
  • Science
  • Classification

• I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

  

  Daniela Bobadilla
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Funny

• A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • People
  • Business
  • Future

• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

  

  John Dryden