John Milton Quotes

With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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• Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Death
  • Reputation

• If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file their bill and have it heard and file their amendment and have it heard, as opposed to the system that we have now, which closes out, closes down bills, limits debate, and so forth.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Chance
  • Limits

• Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.

  

  Larry Wall
  • True
  • Today

• The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Star

• It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

  

  James Lipton
  • Rest

• All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

  

  Future
  • Good
  • Bad

• Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.

  

  Kevin Macdonald

• I'm not an urban person.

  

  David Guterson

• My relationship has never been good with the government.

  

  John McAfee
  • Good
  • Relationship

• I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Depression

• I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.

  

  Andrea Savage
  • Academic

• What do they do in there?

  

  Der W Böhse Onkelz
  • To Do
  • They

• Regardless of what level the actor's at, you always learn something. And you can learn something from bad actors as well, who I've also worked with in the past.

  

  Reece Thompson
  • Bad
  • Past
  • Actor

• What's amazing about this show Westworld, and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, Dolores she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Roles
  • Female
  • Gender

• I am a big fan of the electronic book. I hate to see the old bookstores close, but they have to reinvent themselves. I believe the First Edition bookstore will be the next thing. People will read electronically, then decide they want to own that book. The author will then be invited to the old bookstores to sign. I think books will always be with us, but they will fill a different need.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

  

  John Milton
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