Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Never
  • Give
  • Would

• I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Character
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• It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Black
  • Born
  • Been

• I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Life
  • Wanted
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• God has pity on kindergarten children.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • God
  • Children
  • Kindergarten

• My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Thoughts

• Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Justice
  • Invisible
  • Civil Rights

• We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • Fighting
  • Moon
  • Museums

• It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Back

• The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Health
  • Mayor

• If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
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• I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
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• I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Crazy
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• We can do school work on a plane. Actually when we get home we usually catch up what we can. However, some of the teachers are real bastards. But we got some really cool teachers. They just say, 'Yeah, we know what you do after school, so don't worry about it.' They know about the band and they are really into it.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Work
  • School
  • Teachers

• There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Important
  • Love
  • Why

• This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Blessed
  • England

• If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Future
  • Feels
  • Positivity

• It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Darkness
  • Violent
  • Flame