John Milton Quotes

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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• It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Fun
  • Complicated
  • Intense

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
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• If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
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• I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
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• Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Me
  • Prayer

• As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Just

• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Child
  • Doing
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• Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Company

• I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Words
  • Artist
  • Just

• If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Confident

• The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Desire
  • Friend
  • Humanity

• When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Music

• Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

  

  David Deutsch
  • May
  • Knowledge

• The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

  

  Lydia M. Child
  • Life
  • Humanity

• When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.

  

  Lorde
  • People
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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Puzzles
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• I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • New York
  • Bestseller

• You can't bank on the outcome.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • You
  • Bank
  • Outcome

• There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.

  

  Judith Rodin
  • Work
  • Foundation
  • Bank

• It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Money
  • Hands
  • Easy

• I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

  

  John Milton
  • Bank
  • Ivy
  • Canopied