Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
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Well, I can't figure out God.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
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It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
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There is a garden in her faceWhere roses and white lilies blow;A heavenly paradise is that place,Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:There cherries grow which none may buyTill 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.
