John Milton Quotes
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
John Milton
Quotes to Explore
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
Abigail Washburn
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The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
Rachel Nichols
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Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.
V. S. Pritchett
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
H. L. Mencken
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The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.
Warren Farrell
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
John Burroughs
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If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
Martin Jacques
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
Joe Gilgun
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I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
Emma Watson
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I was a different kind of player as a kid and didn't do too much shouting and screaming. If things didn't go my way, I tended to get a bit overwhelmed. All I wanted to do was cry on my mom's shoulder. I didn't know how to handle defeat in front of a crowd, and I didn't want to be the loser.
John McEnroe
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
John Milton
