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Lord Byron Quotes

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Lord Byron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824

Topics

Ocean Man Blue Control Deep Dark

After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.

Jim Nabors

Home Time Back First Time First

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Myself Me Mystery Why Write Outside

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

Joan Didion

Live Experience Ideas Line Narrative

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Andrew Rannells

Live People Me Village Will Always

Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds.

Andrew Sean Greer

Love You Minds Critics Sentimental

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Robert Smith Surtees

Death Better Than Frightened

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Matt Groening

Life Know Done Watching See Up

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

Angela Bassett

Woman People Me Law Free Black

It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here.

Stephan Jenkins

Time Moment Me Present Hard Pure

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

Rob Manuel

Strategy Logic Haters You Lose Turn

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Roseanne Barr

Work Personality You Will Tell Big

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Rosemary Clooney

Hope Me Singing I Can Know Done