John Dryden Quotes

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

John Dryden

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Free
  • Design
  • Sky

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Energy
  • Lies
  • inspirational

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government
  • Service

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Age
  • Woman
  • Everything

• If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Desire
  • Spiritual
  • Development

• On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • War
  • Occasions
  • Activities

• And, of course, the funniest food: 'kumquats'. I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.

  

  George Carlin
  • Home
  • Food

• Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

  

  John Dryden
  • Mind