John Lyly Quotes

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

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• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • American
  • Pretty

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Control
  • Government
  • Stand

• I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Job
  • New York

• The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

  

  Ovid
  • Effect
  • Hidden
  • Visible

• What's your name, new best friend?

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Friend

• The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • True
  • Inspired
  • Spring

• We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Important
  • Evil
  • Decision

• I did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • Science
  • Technology

• No man is invincible.

  

  Keyshawn Johnson

• We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Question
  • Greek

• I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • Work
  • Night

• Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

  

  John Ortberg
  • Power
  • Control

• When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: 'Naturally.' He then added: 'And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?'

  

  John Wilkes
  • Friend
  • Devil

• ‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’

  

  Christopher Paolini

• Micro computers used as word processors complement the audio facilities, enabling the interactive teaching of all four language skills reading, listening, speaking and writing.

  

  David Crystal
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • African

• I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

  

  Brenda Lee
  • Why
  • Words
  • Reading

• My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Music
  • School
  • Remember

• Hide me from day's garish eye,While the bee with honied thigh,That at her flowery work doth sing,And the waters murmuringWith such consort as they keep,Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

  

  John Milton
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Bee

• The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

  

  Charles Tennyson Turner
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Survive

• Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

  

  John Lyly
  • Bee