John Milton Quotes
Hide me from day's garish eye,While the bee with honied thigh,That at her flowery work doth sing,And the waters murmuringWith such consort as they keep,Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
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What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.
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I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.
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While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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Hide me from day's garish eye,While the bee with honied thigh,That at her flowery work doth sing,And the waters murmuringWith such consort as they keep,Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.
