John Milton Quotes

License they mean when they cry, Liberty!For who loves that must first be wise and good.

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• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• Being spontaneous is a blessing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Being
  • Blessing
  • Spontaneous

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Great
  • Judge
  • Circumstances

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Chaos

• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Art
  • Travel
  • Teacher

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Greatest

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Everything

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Believe
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• There are many documentary filmmakers who have a tough time because they don't really get what they need to do what they want. There are so many people with good visions that should be encouraged and helped. And they will deliver, I'm sure.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely, usually in black and white. You learn things about your text when you have to think about pacing and page-turns.

  

  Adam Rex
  • Good
  • Work
  • Book

• Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• License they mean when they cry, Liberty!For who loves that must first be wise and good.

  

  John Milton
  • Good
  • Wise