John Dryden Quotes
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
Igor Stravinsky -
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth -
I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
Banksy -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
Harold Prince -
The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus -
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immanuel Kant -
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
Jacob Batalon -
Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
Victoria Moran -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
Ursula Burns
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
Gary Johnson -
When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
Orville Wright -
Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
Taylor Momsen -
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown -
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
Carine Roitfeld
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I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.
Cindy Sherman -
We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.
Jonathan Sacks -
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
Vano Merabishvili -
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
Aleksandar Hemon -
It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.
May-Britt Moser -
With how much ease believe we what we wish!
John Dryden