Variorum Milton Quotes & Sayings

My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait. — Jasmine Guinness

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism. — Leland Ryken

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows. — Malin Akerman

You have a choice. A life of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
You choose. — Melissa Nathan

I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ? — Joe Dunthorne

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light" (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93. Yiddish's — Diane Ackerman

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . . — Bethany Anne Miller

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself. — Michael Chekhov

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water - each and all came within the range of his observations. — Thomas Edward Thorpe

My parents were high school sweethearts, which is a term that means "too stupid to use a condom. — John Goode

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do. — Jewel

I don't know why people persist in believing women are inferior, when it is quite clear that men are the more feeble-minded of the two. — Julia Quinn