John Dryden Quotes

Him of the western dome, whose weighty senseFlows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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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
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• 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
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• 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
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• 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
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Interesting
  • Community
  • Advertising

• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• 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
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Focus

• 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
  • Small
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • September
  • Egypt

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• 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
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Own
  • Comfortable

• The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Movie
  • Joy

• The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Good
  • Words

• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• Ain't going down 'til the sun comes up;Ain't givin' in 'til they get enough.Going 'round the world in a pickup truck,Ain't goin' down 'til the sun comes up.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Sun

• Him of the western dome, whose weighty senseFlows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

  

  John Dryden
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