John Dryden Quotes

Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.

John Dryden

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Enemy
  • Hands
  • Direction

• Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Good
  • Long
  • Peace

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • Job
  • Gold

• I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Artist
  • Imagine
  • Musicians

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Remember

• I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • Never
  • New York

• At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • May
  • Happy

• I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • Powerful
  • Say
  • Afraid

• I've always been very fond of animals.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Always
  • Animals
  • Very

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Weird
  • Story

• Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Women
  • Understand

• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Truth
  • Die
  • Realized

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Light
  • Church

• To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Horse
  • Shadow
  • Mountains

• Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.

  

  John Dryden