John Dryden Quotes
Him of the western dome, whose weighty senseFlows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
John Dryden
Quotes to Explore
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
Tate Donovan
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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?
Park Shin-hye
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
Saint Ambrose
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson
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I'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
Fidel Castro
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Xander Berkeley
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
Edmund Hillary
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Barbara Walters
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All of man's work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Alexis Korner
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty senseFlows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
John Dryden
