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

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• 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

• I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Successful

• 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

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• 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

• All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Present

• Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Words
  • Single
  • Language

• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Today
  • Words

• If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Family
  • Words
  • Bible

• Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Long
  • Live
  • Words

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

  

  John Dryden
  • Words