Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Opportunities
  • White

• The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Future
  • You
  • Employer

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Believe
  • High
  • Law

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Leave

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.

  

  W. H. Auden

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien
  • Christian
  • Unity

• My mother did what all great leaders do: She sparked the growth of future leaders.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Great
  • She
  • Mother

• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Time
  • Organization

• Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• Prince is my favorite ever. I've liked Prince since... It's been a really long time. Even in junior high. I used to only like punk for a while, and I had all these rules for what kinds of groups were cool, and who was not cool, but as soon as I saw this one Prince video... It just broke all those rules. I was like, 'I love this no matter what.'

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Time
  • Long
  • High

• Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

  

  Billy Wilder

• To err from the right path is common to mankind.

  

  Sophocles
  • Right
  • Mankind
  • Err

• The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Home
  • House
  • Song

• Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Life
  • God
  • She

• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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