John Milton Quotes

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Women
  • Guy

• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Man
  • Dreams
  • Generation

• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • God
  • Love
  • Together

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Long
  • Human
  • Decisions

• I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Attraction

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Proud
  • Pleasure
  • Fact

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with

  

  Aberjhani
  • Light
  • Author

• 'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Dark

• All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Evil
  • Moral

• Hey baby, what'cha know good?I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would.War is hell, when will it end?When will people start gettin' together again?

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Country
  • Law
  • Fire

• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• I never grew up on Jodeci. I never grew up on things like that 'cause my dad was a preacher, and he kind of kept us away from music like that.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dad

• If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Great
  • Past
  • Blessed

• Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Jesus
  • Genius
  • Poet

• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Time
  • Good
  • Star

• He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

  

  John Milton