John Milton Quotes
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
Quotes to Explore
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, but I love giving money to Israel.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
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Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
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In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.
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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
