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

• If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

  

  William Lane Craig
  • Values
  • Consequence
  • Ultimate

• I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Age
  • Always
  • Something

• I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People

• A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • People
  • School
  • Church

• We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

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

  

  John Dryden