Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The food of hope is meditative action.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Thinking
  • Free
  • Man

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Personality

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Attention
  • Your
  • Capture

• You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Yourself
  • Win
  • Edge

• I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Childhood
  • Drama
  • Complete

• I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • British
  • Council

• I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Great
  • Truth

• I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • School
  • Childhood
  • Very

• Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Jealous

• I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• There is less in this than meets the eye.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Eye
  • Less
  • Meets

• There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Hate

• To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, "The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam," you'd say, "Okay, that's kind of conceivable." If you're talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

  

  Sean Covey
  • Friends
  • Journey

• If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • May
  • Way

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• I would rather die than see my face in a car advertisement.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Die
  • Car

• The food of hope is meditative action.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Hope
  • Food
  • Action