Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.
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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
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Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.
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We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?
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I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.
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I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.
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Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
