John Dryden Quotes

So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

John Dryden

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Science
  • Years
  • Fiction

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Actor
  • Grateful

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Kids
  • Words
  • Day

• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Situation

• I have much more to offer than my physical appearance, and a hijab protects me against 'You're too skinny,' 'You're too thick,' 'Look at her hips,' 'Look at her thigh gap.' I don't have to worry about that.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Me
  • Worry
  • Look

• I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Tough

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Home
  • Girl
  • Like

• As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Time
  • Think
  • Labels

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Sad

• In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Artist
  • Eye
  • Painting

• Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • People
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • God
  • Individual
  • Pressure

• Naked I came into this world, naked I shall go out of it. And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good

• My ideas developed under the influence of the bohemians or rather under Hans Jager leader of the 'Kristiania Bohemia' since 1883. Many people have mistakenly claimed that my ideas were formed under the influence of Strindberg and the Germans.. ..but that is wrong. They had already been formed by then.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • People

• So over violent, or over civil,That every man with him was God or Devil.

  

  John Dryden
  • God
  • Devil