Lord Byron Quotes

Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.

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• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Art
  • Walking

• The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Small
  • Living
  • Iron

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Community
  • Powerful
  • Enjoy

• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Modern
  • Doors

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Place
  • Rights
  • View

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Day
  • Thought

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Better
  • Work Hard

• The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Today
  • Pretty
  • Idea

• I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Game
  • Say
  • Going

• Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Goddess

• That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Perspective

• He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

  

  Jose Marti

• The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Opportunity
  • Decision
  • Promise

• Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.

  

  Lord Byron