John Milton Quotes
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.John Milton
Quotes to Explore
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
Zoe Kravitz -
I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
Ira Glass -
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
Ramez Naam -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells -
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
Umberto Eco
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
F. Sionil Jose -
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
Cam -
I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
Kate Micucci -
I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
Harmony Korine -
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
T. J. Miller -
When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
Daniel Breaker -
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
Ilka Chase -
In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
Adam Mansbach -
I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
Lapo Elkann
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Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.
Winifred Holtby -
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy -
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
M. H. Abrams -
The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.
Ami Ayalon -
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
John Milton