John Dryden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
-
I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
-
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
-
I never pursued being 'famous.'
-
I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
-
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
-
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
-
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
-
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
-
I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
-
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
-
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
-
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
-
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
-
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
-
What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
-
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
-
This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.
-
Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.
-
I think it's a really important thing for women to be able to just put their hands up and go, I can't actually do any more.
-
Second thoughts, they say, are best.
