John Lyly Quotes

I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.

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• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Angry

• When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Control
  • Older
  • Freak

• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Sometimes

• The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.

  

  Gary Numan
  • You
  • Me
  • Idea

• Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Job
  • Success

• Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Place
  • England
  • Encouraging

• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Looks
  • Parent
  • Misfortune

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Character
  • You
  • Strange

• My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high school is so much fun.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • School
  • Study
  • Acting

• I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Need
  • I Can

• We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Everything
  • Furniture
  • Toys

• Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

  

  Quintilian
  • Own
  • Satire
  • Indeed

• An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

  

  Edith Hall
  • Engaged
  • Evolved
  • Illuminating

• And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

  

  Jacques Rivette
  • Time
  • Long

• When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are black film-makers and storytellers who take a back seat to just get it done. It's good, but it's not right there. It's been compromised.

  

  John Singleton
  • Good
  • Done
  • Black

• The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.

  

  George Soros
  • Society
  • Discussion
  • Principle

• There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Women
  • Stories
  • True voice

• I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.

  

  John Lyly