Lord Byron Quotes

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Lord Byron

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• When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Always
  • Place
  • Sail

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • House
  • Myself

• If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Think
  • Year
  • Sunday

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church

• Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like 'What Sarah Said': I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Song

• Distances did nothing. It’s all here.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Nothing
  • Here
  • Did

• I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

  

  Bjork
  • Girl

• Chanel is a very important vendor for Neiman Marcus. My favorite thing is the way they finish off the hems on dresses and jackets.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Important

• So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Design

• Some defeats are only installments to victory.

  

  Jacob Riis
  • Victory

• 'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

  

  John Curran
  • Book
  • City
  • Journey

• The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

  

  John Keats
  • Peace
  • Calm

• Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

  

  Jean Hanff Korelitz
  • God
  • Trying
  • Night

• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Media

• It’s better to live as “Mr. Good guy” to a few people who trust you rather than living as “Mr. Perfect” to many people who talk behind you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Driven
  • Sail
  • Sphere

• He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Distraction
  • Sensation
  • Movements

• Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

  

  Eddy Merckx
  • Ride
  • Upgrade

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Energy
  • Me

• This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Distraction
  • Sail
  • Wing