Lord Byron Quotes

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

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• I'm pagan.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Pagan

• When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Know
  • Author

• I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Baby

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Art
  • War

• I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Fall
  • Expect

• It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Small
  • Mistake

• No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Sky

• I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Good

• It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Nice

• When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein

• To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • People
  • Together
  • Happy

• I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • People
  • World

• Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

  

  Jerry Stiller

• He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Thanks

• I came to New York for school, and then I did this amazing show that was received very well, with a great group of people, and I felt like I was creating something that I was really proud of, and then 'Hamilton' was my next big thing in New York.

  

  Phillipa Soo
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

  

  Tacitus
  • Hated
  • Prefer
  • Traitors

• Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Stuff
  • Musician
  • Artists

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Bhoot' is a hold-on-to-your-seats horror film, while 'Darna Manaa Hai' is a hold-on-to-your-popcorn horror film.

  

  Ram Gopal Varma
  • Horror
  • While

• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Prefer
  • Vapour
  • Bank Credit