Lord Byron Quotes

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

Lord Byron

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• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Father
  • Think
  • Actor

• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Women
  • Love
  • Experience

• But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time

• The European public has always been great to me.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Great

• If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Criticism

• What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Free
  • Fashion

• I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

  

  John McGahern
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

  

  Jessica Walter
  • Trying
  • Movie

• If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • People
  • Different
  • Color

• There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Good
  • Purpose

• There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Place
  • No One
  • Fill

• None of my characters have really had jobs.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Character
  • Jobs

• That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Christmas
  • Kitchen
  • Merciful

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Characters

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Wisdom
  • Glory
  • Indeterminate

• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Team
  • Alone

• There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Special
  • Providence

• Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Glory
  • Phoenix
  • Expires