Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
-
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
-
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
-
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
-
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
-
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
-
I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
-
People want you to fail.
-
If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
-
When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.
-
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
-
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
-
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
-
You give the money where you want it.
-
I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
-
I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
-
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
-
With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.
-
Away from shooting, well, I always want to spend time with my family and being at home.
-
I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.
-
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
-
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
-
We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to say how sweet the night was, how magical the moon, how the sea sparkled, how two souls were able to meet and recognize each other in the darkness, in the fragrant air.
-
When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.
