John Dryden Quotes

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Real
  • Done
  • Fun

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• 'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Happy

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Teach
  • Walk

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• Curvy is something to be proud of.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Curvy

• Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Up
  • Business
  • Know

• There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Parents

• I think that the ability to export our abundant resources of LNG is good for us and quite honestly helps with the balance-of-trade issue. Japan would love to see LNG coming from its friend and closest ally, the United States.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Balance

• Und sind Sie mit mir einer Meinung, daß es die erste Bedingung zu einem Künstler sei, daß er Respekt vor dem Großen habe, und sich davor beuge, und es anerkenne, und nicht die großen Flammen auszupusten versuche, damit das kleine Talglicht ein wenig heller leuchte?

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Die

• Everyone has different layers to who they are.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Different

• I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Long

• The only reason I'll be going is to see if I can rattle Roger Clemens.

  

  Paul Quantrill
  • Reason
  • Going
  • Rattle

• Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet.

  

  John Dryden
  • Power
  • Remember