Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
Patrick Lencioni -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
Nate Lowman -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
Victoria Pendleton -
While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
Patch Adams -
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
Adam Michnik -
Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.
Karl Shapiro -
Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
Leo Burnett -
All economic forecasts are subject to considerable uncertainty. There is always a wide range of plausible outcomes for important economic variables, including the federal funds rate.
Jerome Powell -
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
Arthur Keith -
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Frederick Soddy -
It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.
Maria Semple
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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
Saint Augustine -
I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
David Edwards -
I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.
Juhi Chawla -
The weather for me is nothing special. The weather couldn't kill me.
Li Na -
Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton