John Milton Quotes
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.John Milton
Quotes to Explore
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
Narciso Rodriguez -
Playing Willie Loomis was really fun for me because it was something nice and different to embody. It was neat playing this drunken servant who was hypnotized by Johnny Depp.
Jackie Earle Haley -
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
Ken Thompson -
School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.
Louis Sachar -
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
Lynn Barber -
Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.
Brian Tracy
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Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
Brian Tracy -
I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.
Lucille Clifton -
I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Tom Stoppard -
The way I talk is bizarre.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish that.
Paul Martin
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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
Marianne Williamson -
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke Nazareth -
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
Edgar Allan Poe -
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
Anne Carson -
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
John Milton