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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
-
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.
-
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
-
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.
-
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
-
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
-
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.
-
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
-
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
-
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.
-
I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.
-
I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
-
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
-
Music kept me sane between acting jobs.
-
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
-
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
-
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.
