Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Morning

• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  

  Sampha
  • Want
  • Song
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• Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Important
  • Done
  • Stop

• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Nervous

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Learn

• Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Want
  • Struggle
  • Emotional

• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Morning

• We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Car
  • Wall

• Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Done

• When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people.

  

  Brian Chesky
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  • Art
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• The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.

  

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  • World

• We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.

  

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  • Together

• Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Character
  • Wish
  • Stories

• It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Me
  • View

• Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Done
  • Night
  • Wish

• I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Throughout all the rejections at auditions, and especially when I finally did get something, both my parents have been so supportive and always told me it is all about passion and, if I was doing it because I love it, there's no wrong choice.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Passion

• That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Perspective
  • View
  • Gentlemen