Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
-
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
-
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
-
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
-
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
-
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
-
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
-
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
-
Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
-
We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
-
I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
-
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
-
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
-
I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
-
The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
-
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
-
People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
-
The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
-
I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.
-
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
-
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
-
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
