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John Gay Quotes

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: June 30, 1685 - December 4, 1732

Topics

Kiss Sweet Rest He His Granted

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

Name Blues New New Orleans Different

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

Good Light Me Die Others Need

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Competition People Gold Win Think

I've always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Love Music Me World Will More

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

Dance Question Who Dances Does

You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you're okay with who you are or where you came from.

Relationship You Okay Realize Where

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Great Words People Doing Enjoy Hand

FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Day Relax World Saying Doing You

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Stars Age Mind Remember Hollywood

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant H. McGill

Education Yourself Be Yourself Think

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Free Pride Stubborn Achieve Desire

It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

Good Lie Fight Grace Proud You

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