John Dryden Quotes

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

John Dryden

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Know
  • Flying
  • Accomplishment

• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Life
  • Me
  • Army

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Intelligence
  • Others

• I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Think
  • Hand

• Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Family
  • Home
  • Congress

• Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • You
  • Become
  • Less

• 'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • History
  • Show
  • SNL

• I want you to be able to go to Aquazzura and find a shoe for every occasion, whether that's a red carpet ball or picking up your kids from school.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Lost
  • Poetry
  • End

• Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Children

• Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Truth
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge

• 'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • People
  • Long
  • City

• She was a form of life and lightThat seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory! Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fireWith angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • She
  • Earth

• The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.

  

  Chuck Jones
  • People
  • Important
  • Disney

• Just be comfortable with who you are.

  

  Chris Pratt

• I have an affinity for Disney and the Princess.

  

  Kidada Jones
  • Disney
  • Princess

• I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children
  • Question

• A lot of it's mental - a lot of the juniors, once you break them or change the momentum, they go away very quickly.

  

  Denis Shapovalov

• There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.

  

  Nabil Elaraby
  • Country
  • Military
  • Russia

• I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

  

  John Dryden