John Milton Quotes

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

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• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Like
  • Sports
  • Dirty

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Home
  • Man

• We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Girl

• It gets late early out there.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Early
  • Late
  • Out

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Sex

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Art
  • Really
  • Get

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Time
  • Work
  • High

• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Work
  • Control
  • Better

• The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Friends
  • Affection
  • Test

• To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • You
  • Something
  • Unknown

• I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Achieving

• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Hate
  • Door
  • Forget

• I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Guys
  • Boyfriend

• The Gaza sniper deserves a decoration, and the photographer a demerit.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman

• Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Dad
  • Model

• All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.

  

  Archibald Garrod
  • Problem
  • Belief
  • Individual

• If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Play
  • Piano
  • Instruments

• It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Victory
  • Impossible
  • Venture

• Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

  

  John Milton
  • Pine
  • Cedar
  • Fir