John Milton Quotes

He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

John Milton

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• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Trying

• When someone drew a picture of Pope John wearing an Avis 'We try harder' button, those words no longer meant which car rental to patronize, and yet some of the overtones from its original meaning are there and make a contribution to the new situation.

  

  Corita Kent
  • Words
  • Car
  • Picture

• I'm a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Different
  • Mood

• It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • American
  • Color

• As you grow older, you change.

  

  Martin Scorsese

• I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Up
  • Wish

• Most of my books have something to do with L.A.

  

  Lydia Millet

• Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Why

• Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

  

  Dwight Schultz
  • Time
  • Period

• I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Insanity

• When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

  

  Andrej Pejic
  • Model
  • Paris

• The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • Book

• The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Music
  • Stations
  • Oldies

• So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Wish
  • Scarce
  • Blush

• To me the task is a loathsome one. I go in the spirit of the soldier who acts against his best judgment at the orders of his superior.

  

  Michael Collins
  • Soldier
  • Judgment
  • Against

• Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

  

  Francis Atterbury
  • Writing
  • Values
  • Judging

• The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

  

  W. Eugene Smith

• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  

  John Milton
  • Superior
  • Scarce
  • Fiend