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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. - John Lyly...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
As busie as a Bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
You are in some brown study.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
A new broome sweepeth cleane.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE
The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE
I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale-- Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not ...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE
The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It...
THE EDGE
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European ...
THE EDGE
Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basica...
THE EDGE
We've always tried to do different things with the sound of the band, but with this record we've tri...
THE EDGE
You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very ...
THE EDGE
Most groups, I think, would have been taking their foot of the gas at this point. But we have the ex...
THE EDGE
One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community,...
THE EDGE
We want this record to be something that people really listen to, rather than just have in their rec...
THE EDGE
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ...
THE EDGE
Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE
For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in th...
THE EDGE
... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurit...
JAMES THURBER
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obsc...
JAMES THURBER
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
Should you avoid the one who speaks his mind? Or the one whose intentions are undefined?
JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN
Competition is the whetstone of talent.
TRADITIONAL PROVERB
The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because...
EDWARD R. MURROW
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to in...
TOM ALLEN
To cut a whetstone with a razor.
ANDREW FLETCHER
To cut a whetstone with a razor.
ANDREW FLETCHER, LORD INNERPEFFER (1)
I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses.”
“ ‘Panic’?...
ILONA ANDREWS
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
GEORGE ELIOT
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN
It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI
You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other...
JOHN LENNON
A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and...
ARTHUR MILLER
John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us a...
EUGENE KENNEDY
Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN
Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE
Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE
Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE
The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
We cannot decide if she is blunt or sharp
JUDY JOHNSON
Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you."
She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?"
ILONA ANDREWS
Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar awa...
ILONA ANDREWS
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT
I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS
I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS
Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE
Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.
AMAN JASSAL
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain...
EDSGAR W. DIJKSTRA
Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON
I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
The Legend of Zorro,
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was fee...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER
John Cage would be thoroughly disappointed if he knew that he was still considered cutting edge in 2...
MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM
If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER
I know John Kerry well, ... I spent six years working with him in the Senate, and we spent a lot of ...
JOHN EDWARDS
Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real...
PAUL CORNELL
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN
O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF
Did I hurt you in the parking lot?"
"No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."...
ILONA ANDREWS
You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever," George said. "No, honestly, it's horrible ...
ILONA ANDREWS
This doesn't mean you're getting a discount."
Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll...
ILONA ANDREWS
An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.
ILONA ANDREWS
When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you...
ILONA ANDREWS
Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in pl...
ILONA ANDREWS
At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?"
"No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at he...
ILONA ANDREWS
Stealers, keepers.
ILONA ANDREWS
Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON
Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)
TAMORA PIERCE
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS
Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
ILONA ANDREWS

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Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature. - John Lyly...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
As busie as a Bee.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
A cleere conscience is a sure carde.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
You are in some brown study.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
A new broome sweepeth cleane.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE
The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.
JOHN LYLY LYLIE OR LYLLIE
I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale-- Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
None but the lark so shrill and clear; Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings, The morn not ...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marria...
JOHN LYLY
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
JOHN LYLY
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
JOHN LYLY
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
JOHN LYLY
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
JOHN LYLY
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
JOHN LYLY
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
JOHN LYLY
A clear conscience is a sure card.
JOHN LYLY
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
JOHN LYLY
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
JOHN LYLY
He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.
JOHN LYLY
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon
JOHN LYLY
Cupid and my Campaspe played / At cards for kisses, Cupid paid.
JOHN LYLY
A merry companion is as good as a wagon
JOHN LYLY
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.
JOHN LYLY
In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.
JOHN LYLY
It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
JOHN LYLY
Night hath a thousand eyes
JOHN LYLY
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire
JOHN LYLY
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted
JOHN LYLY
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel
JOHN LYLY
A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
JOHN LYLY
We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth
JOHN LYLY
None but the lark so shrill and clear; / How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, / The morn not w...
JOHN LYLY
Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe
JOHN LYLY
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame
JOHN LYLY
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, ...
JOHN LYLY
To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind
JOHN LYLY
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia ...
MANILIUS (MANLIUS OR MALLIUS) (MARCUS OR CAIUS)
Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were, There's none of our employments Wit...
THOMAS DURFEE (OR D'URFEY)
The new definition of God - It has the root in Vedanta. The concentrated form of the whole human rac...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND
She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad c...
PATRICK MAJOR DALLAS OR
The Supreme Cult never leaves a man. It never gets destroyed or evaporated. It is God’s grace and ...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND
Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."
CHARLES JEFFERYS (JEFFREYS OR JEFFRIES)
And wanting the right rule they take chalke for cheese, as the saying is.
NICHOLAS GRIMOALD (GRIMALD OR GRIMALDE)
The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
CARDINAL CARLO CARAFA (OR CARAFFA)
He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER MEURIR OR MURIER
He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
GABRIEL MEURIER (MEURIR OR MURIER)
NEIN
HITLER LUDWIG OR GILBERT IDK
Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt: ...
LADY ELIZABETH CAREW (CARY OR CAREY)
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives withou...
LADY ELIZABETH CAREW (CARY OR CAREY)
And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been...
HENRY DE BRACTON (BRATTON OR BRETTON)
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external s...
COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY
Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is imper...
COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY
Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cad...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
They are able because they think they are able. [Lat., Possunt quia posse videntur.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cogno...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pect...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non ple...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alia...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt,...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam s...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin an...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem c...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, in...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite va...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus ...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL
A mind conscious of its own rectitude. [Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL
His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
All of which misery I saw, part of which I was. [Lat., Quaeque ipse misserrima vidi, et quorum par...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
To pile Ossa upon Pelion. [Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.]
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain, O...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strengt...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON
In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON
Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON
What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON
The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON
There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON
It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON
We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND
I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT
My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE
I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE
I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE
I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE
All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE
Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE
When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE
You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD
When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI
Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI
The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER
Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER
Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER
He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE
Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON