John Donne Quotes

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

John Donne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1572 - March 31, 1631

Topics

MeYouWouldNoneSaveSome

All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.

Jovan Adepo

MomentMenIdeasStand UpStandOwn

I love house music. I love all music.

Concha Buika

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I only got into show business because I quit football.

Bradley Walsh

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It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Wolfgang Tillmans

DeathNightPotentialRealLine

Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'

Percy Sledge

LoveMeRememberLove MeSaidKid

In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century.

Richard Corliss

MusicAmericanSongsEarMelodies

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

Martin Freeman

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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Henry Taube

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I like to live life and not work every second of the day, and spend time with my family and stuff like that. Balance is very important for me.

Greg Kurstin

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I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

Eric Whitacre

MusicExperienceConnectionConnected

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

Erik Bruhn

DreamsNeverYearsExtraBeenCould

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

Freddie Wong

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