John Lyly Quotes

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

John Lyly

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• I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Best Friend

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Welcome

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Help
  • Same

• People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Fun
  • Respect
  • Glory

• Our actions are the ground we walk on.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Walk
  • Actions
  • Ground

• The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Truth
  • Said
  • Act

• Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • God
  • Believe
  • Science

• I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.

  

  Abbie Hoffman

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much-discussed couplet:

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Book
  • Mad

• India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Power

• Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am - trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature - then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Trying
  • Nature

• 'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Free

• I go - as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Men

• i am always doing things i can't do. that's how i get to do them.

  

  Alicia Witt

• '...old inhabitants of the bureaucratic jungle like (Secretary) Hull knew that Cabinet boards and committees were paper tigers. They made a fine show in a parade but soon dissolved in the rain...After attend a few meetings (of this board), the Secretary deputized me to 'explain his absence' and substitute for him.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Rain

• Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore - but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Spring
  • Rose

• I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Rose
  • Instant

• The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Men
  • Water

• A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

  

  John Lyly
  • Rose