John Dryden Quotes

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

John Dryden

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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
  • Music
  • Never
  • Ending

• 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
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
  • Where

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Truth
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
  • Give
  • Physician

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Passion
  • Acting
  • First

• 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
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Baby

• 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
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• 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
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• 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
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• 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
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• 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
  • Power
  • End
  • Horse

• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Camera

• The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • History
  • Past
  • Down

• 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
  • Important
  • Walk
  • Stand

• Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • World
  • Believe
  • Help

• I started writing more with my voice in mind.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Writing
  • Mind

• My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mother
  • Everything

• You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word 'Negro' is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Different
  • Family
  • Mother

• When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

  

  Mark Ruffalo

• With how much ease believe we what we wish!

  

  John Dryden
  • Believe
  • Wish