Lord Byron Quotes

I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

Lord Byron

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• Whispered
• Public Rumor

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• I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Work
  • Done
  • Creativity

• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Hate
  • Gay

• I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Family
  • Know
  • Insurance

• If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Regret

• Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Reality
  • Style

• If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

  

  Oliver Hardy
  • Funny
  • Ifs
  • Quiet

• Walls turned sideways are bridges.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Bridges
  • Walls
  • Sideways

• When I read in US Weekly the other day that she was fifty-nine, ... I was like, 'whoa, dude, no way she's old enough to be my mother.' Being with somebody that old is like committing incest, only you're not related.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • She
  • Mother
  • Somebody

• Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Quality

• They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Awareness

• We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • United States
  • Censorship

• Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Amazing
  • Kill
  • Rage

• The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

  

  Sydney Schanberg
  • Press
  • Organizations
  • Covering

• I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's probably affected everything else about me. Obviously, the more you travel, the wilder the things that keep happening to you, the more likely it is you'll get complete strangers knocking on your hotel room door.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Life
  • Road
  • Spent

• I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Violence
  • Racial

• St. Bernard's is a very good team. We simply couldn't execute or shoot the ball well.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Good
  • Team
  • St. Bernard`s

• I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

  

  Lord Byron
  • England
  • Whispered
  • Public Rumor