Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was a lawyer.
-
I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
-
I never thought I'd be an actor.
-
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
-
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
-
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
-
I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
-
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
-
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
-
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
-
'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
-
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
-
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
-
I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
-
The essayist … can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast...
-
'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
-
Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.
-
I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.
-
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
-
I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough?
-
North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we never forget that North Korea was named as part of the "axis of evil" a year before the United States invaded Iraq. Do you think we would be stupid enough to believe American promises after all this? We are a nuclear power. That is not negotiable. We are willing to talk about limits freezes - but we would need to be given something in return security, in the form of diplomatic recognition by Washington and guarantees of nonaggression from China, Japan and the United States.
-
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
