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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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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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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My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
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Towards the end of Coexist, we had a couple of short tours where, although we were on the road together, we weren't speaking very much. We were there to do a job, and once the show was done we'd go our separate ways to our hotel rooms. Those were some of my unhappiest moments. Stepping offstage and, within an hour, being in a hotel room alone is the most crazy feeling. I don't know how to really explain it. I felt just lost and confused. It's anticlimactic and you just feel really lonely.
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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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!
