Lord Byron Quotes
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
Quotes to Explore
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
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I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
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I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.
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Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
