Lord Byron Quotes

The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.

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• My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Act
  • Many
  • Forming

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Quality
  • First
  • Health care

• I did my best, it wasn't much I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Truth
  • Song
  • Fool

• Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • Organization

• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • People
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Long
  • Game
  • Soldier

• We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Society
  • Integrity

• Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

  

  David Gross
  • Nature

• My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Nice

• I love painting and have a need to do it.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Painting

• I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • World

• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Greatness

• Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's presented to you, take it as a challenge and try to bring in something fresh, then it works.

  

  Adam West
  • Challenge

• I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

  

  Paula Deen
  • People
  • Nice
  • Proud

• I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

  

  Britt Ekland

• The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.

  

  David Grann
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

  

  Billy Koch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Giving

• During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Community
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • School
  • Listening
  • California

• I'm passing through the world invisibly. Even when people see or speak to me it's as if I didn't exist, as if I had no right to exist. I tread across their lands and they don't see me. I act and act and act and nothing makes any difference in the world. But they touch me.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World

• The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Rocky