John Milton Quotes

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

John Milton

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• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Love
  • Age
  • Find

• I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Because
  • Call

• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Plant

• I have become cautious. There is no fixed formula. Today audience's sensibilities are sharp. You can't feed them rubbish. They want to watch good films. The script has to be appealling. Even if it is larger than life, it has to be realistic. Audiences have to identify with what you are showing.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• Madrid is what I call home, but also the States.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Home

• I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Time

• I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.

  

  Lauren Velez
  • Up
  • Different
  • Children

• You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

  

  Bill Walton

• Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

  

  Christopher McDougall
  • Animal
  • Endurance

• I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Up
  • Mother

• Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • Time

• Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Help
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Time
  • Live
  • Man

• My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Music
  • Dreams
  • Sound

• I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

  

  Iain Dowie
  • Good
  • Night
  • Food

• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

  

  Confucius
  • Roses
  • Fragrance
  • Clings

• Wear the outfit; don't let the outfit wear you.

  

  Cheyenne Kimball
  • You
  • Wear
  • Outfit

• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Bad
  • Unique
  • Watch

• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  

  John Milton
  • Roses
  • Jessamine
  • Iris