Lord Byron Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
-
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
-
Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
-
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
-
I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
-
I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
-
The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
-
When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
-
You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
-
The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
-
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
-
I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
-
I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
-
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
-
If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
-
Tell me why, must I fall in love with you?
-
I am not surprised that men are not thankful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow-creatures.
-
If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.
-
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
-
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.
-
My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that poetry, the telling images, the brevity. I want to hear it in my own work as well as in the poetry I read. However, I think I'm generally more forgiving of other poets than myself.
-
What say you to such a supper with such a woman?
