Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
Gary Hamel -
I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons -
We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
Uma Thurman -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
Eric Lynn Wright -
I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
Kapil Sibal
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
Samantha Smith -
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes -
I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
Zara Cox -
I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
Ted Naifeh -
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
Kailash Kher -
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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My wife is a very strong woman.
James Nesbitt -
There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'
James Bay -
What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media.
Jim Lee -
I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.
David Gregory -
I'm still young; I've had a couple things under my belt. I don't even think I've begun where I'm gonna be eventually. I really feel very much in the beginning of my journey. I feel very new.
Lauren London -
So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
Jim Coleman
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When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
John Vanbrugh -
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra -
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
Tate Donovan -
Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.
Martin Delany -
Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
Ethan Canin -
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton