John Milton Quotes

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

John Milton

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• Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Together
  • Control
  • Digital

• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Existence

• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • House
  • Freedom

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Work
  • Experience
  • First

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Passion

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Economic
  • Street

• I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Book
  • Fun

• I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man’s inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Victory
  • Excellence
  • Rebellion

• As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Wisdom
  • Books
  • Guitar

• Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Together
  • Books
  • Lived

• The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Strong
  • Perfect
  • Weak

• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Alone

• Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

  

  John Milton
  • Books
  • Shallow