Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Nature
  • Awards

• 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Movies
  • Favorite
  • Fargo

• If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

  

  Lance Gross
  • She
  • Woman
  • Facebook

• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Woman

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Business
  • Independent
  • Look

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thing

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Up
  • Law
  • Rules

• No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Society
  • Man
  • Doubt

• The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • People
  • Real
  • Yourself

• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • God
  • Heart
  • Memory

• I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Up
  • Director

• I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!

  

  Cory Hardrict
  • People
  • Happy
  • Service

• I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • People
  • Dream
  • Beautiful

• I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

  

  Jonathan Coe
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Inspiration
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• I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Happy
  • Nature
  • Child