John Dryden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
-
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
-
If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
-
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
-
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
-
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
-
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
-
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
-
I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
-
Anybody can leap off a building.
-
People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
-
These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.
-
Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
-
The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
-
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
-
We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
-
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
-
I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
-
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
-
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
-
A stout heart breaks bad luck.
-
Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
