Lord Byron Quotes

Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Rich
  • More
  • Security

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Great
  • Business
  • Politics

• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Question

• Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laughter

• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Truth
  • Exercise

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening-all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Wall

• Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,East wind and frost are safely gone;With zephyr mild and balmy rainThe summer comes serenely on;Earth, air, and sun and skies combineTo promise all that’s kind and fair:-But thou, O human heart of mine,Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Air

• Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

  

  John Adams
  • Free
  • Catholic

• People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • People
  • Music

• Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Women
  • Real

• I've always been happy playing in Kansas City.

  

  Billy Butler
  • Happy
  • City

• I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.

  

  Big Boi
  • Music

• An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Alone

• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • Fear

• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider.

  

  Lord Byron
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  • Rider