Byron Quotes - Page 2

• In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

  Freeman Dyson

  Writing, Artist, Generations

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• Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money and a little bit of fame and let us live in the tall cotton.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Kids, Golf, Caddies

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• Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.

  Dan Jenkins

  Kids, Golf, Fire

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Brain, Noise

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.599, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Fine,' Aria conceded. 'But *I'll* carry her.' She grabbed the baby seeat from the back. A smell of baby powder wafted up to greet her, bringing a lump in her throat. Her father Byron, and his girlfriend, Meredith, had just had a baby, and she loved Lola with all her heart. If she looked too long at this baby, she might love her just as much.

  Sara Shepard

  Baby, Girlfriend, Father

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• ...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal

  Christopher Moore

  Girlfriend, Lilies, Abby

  Christopher Moore (2009). “You Suck”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Believe, Evil, Giving

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• I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Writing, Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

  Alan Moore

  Kicking It, People, Trying

  "Alan Moore Takes League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the ’60s". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

  Harvey Fierstein

  Attitude, Commitment, Goal

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• The world is rid of Lord Byron, but the deadly slime of his touch still remains.

  John Constable

  World, Slime, Lord

  Letter to the Rev. John Fisher, May 1824.

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• Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

  Chad Pennington

  Sunday, Play, Guy

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• Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Kings, Europe, Spain

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• I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

  John Clare

  John Clare (2013). “John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.19, Routledge

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• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Essence

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

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• If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Moon, Ideas, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron de la Beckwith - the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers - they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask "Is this America?" We can no longer ignore the fact that America is NOT the "land of the free and the home of the brave."

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Reading, Home, Men

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Campbell, Wordsworth and Southey. Now Ellen don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare, and Byron. Both these were great Men and their works are like themselves, You will know how to chuse the good and avoid the evil, the finest
  passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting you will never wish to read them over twice.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Names, Evil

  "Charlotte Bronte: Selected Letters". Book edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari, September 9, 2010.

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• To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

  Anton Chekhov

  God, Faith, Believe

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• America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Land, America

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.11, Routledge

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• Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, People, Track

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• Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

  Karen Maitland

  Lying, Dark, Secret

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• In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sex, Revenge, War

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• When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Cutting, Hair, Looks

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