Lord Byron Quotes

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

Lord Byron

• Sunset
• Old Age
• Gout

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Me
  • Like
  • Feel

• Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Pain
  • Give
  • Worth

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Blame
  • Vulnerability
  • Instinctive

• I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Very
  • Preparation

• The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Different
  • Crazy

• I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Job
  • Earth
  • Doing

• Tempus edax rerum.

  

  Ovid

• J.Crew's a great brand.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Great

• Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • People
  • Experience

• They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Father
  • Waiting

• Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Men

• Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Business
  • Political

• Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

  

  John Chilcot

• I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Time
  • Listening
  • Memories

• We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

  

  Pieter Zeeman
  • Light

• Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Ideas
  • Liberty
  • Fiction

• Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

  

  Moliere
  • Human
  • Devout

• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Up
  • Day
  • Summer

• If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Hope
  • Dark

• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sunset
  • Old Age
  • Gout