Quote by John Irving Download Open image ““Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.”” — John Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.” — Anna Beer Copy Share Image
“He was like a statue being chiseled away from the inside, hollowed out. As more and more of his thoughts gave him pain, Milton… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Gilbert Keith Chesterton (that fabulously large Catholic writer) overheard someone making fun of Milton (it didn't matter that the insults were all true).” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost” — Randi Cooley Wilson Copy Share Image
“Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace, I cannot… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Part of what Milton valued in a good book then was contact with the mind of an author rendered otherwise inaccessible by distance or… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Milton argued, in 1649, after the execution of Charles I, that a people 'free by nature' had a right to overthrow a tyrant; a… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“They're just words, he told himself, they don't matter. But he knew that wasn't completely true. The words themselves were only part of the… — Michael Griffo Copy Share Image
“It's all about finding the real meaning, without it everything is meaningless.” — Sahel Akmal Copy Share Image
“Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving Copy Share Image
The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
