John Milton Quotes

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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• To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Data

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Want
  • Know
  • One Word

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• I fell in love with dressing myself up.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Myself
  • Dressing
  • Fell

• Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • Want
  • Security

• New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Love
  • Things
  • Vitality

• Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

  

  Clementine Paddleford
  • Daughter

• I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.

  

  Kesha
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I remember I'd be sleeping in the airport at 5 o'clock in the morning, traveling three hours, and playing a game that day. We never even chartered until my third year in the NBA.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Morning

• Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

  

  Lauren Oliver
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Fans are very emotional people, and when they have seen you with some people and they like your chemistry, they expect you to work with the same person again.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • People
  • Work
  • Emotional

• It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

  

  Dolores Ibarruri
  • Guilty

• If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

  

  Brian Lumley
  • Experience
  • Words

• The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Opinion
  • Vision

• There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Disappointed
  • List
  • Fell

• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  

  Saskya Pandita
  • Silence
  • Birds
  • Cage

• I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • True

• Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

  

  Adam Selzer
  • Die
  • Problems
  • Guidance

• Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

  

  John Milton
  • Fell
  • Freely
  • Stood