Lord Byron Quotes

The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Roses

• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Know

• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Study
  • Stand

• Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Live
  • Money
  • She

• If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thought
  • Poverty
  • Abundance

• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Words
  • Said
  • Follow

• Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • World
  • Peace
  • Terrorism

• In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Star

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Program
  • China
  • Complacency

• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Family

• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• This team's resilient, ... We don't quit. Guys in here have battled back from injuries, the pitching staff's a little bit banged up. Now, we're starting to come into our own.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • People
  • Different
  • Language

• There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Persons
  • Kindness
  • Infinite

• Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Book
  • Like
  • Young

• If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music
  • Art
  • Egomaniac

• Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Book
  • Like
  • Young

• The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Example
  • Prose
  • Verse