Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Hate
  • Call

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • American
  • Friend
  • Best

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • God
  • Education
  • Evil

• I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • America
  • Go
  • Switzerland

• Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Inspiration
  • Role
  • Fighter

• I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • Music
  • Language
  • Audience

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• Winning excuses everything.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Winning
  • Everything
  • Excuses

• Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Beginning
  • Brother
  • Eye

• I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Answers

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Destined

• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Know
  • Change
  • Motorcycle

• The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Challenges
  • Situation

• If the media isn't slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Why
  • Media
  • Everyone

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Soul
  • House
  • Body

• There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Dark

• With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Braggarts

• The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Lucky
  • Patron
  • Public Man