Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

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• Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

  

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• I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.

  

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• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

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• At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.

  

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• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

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• I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

  

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• 42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.

  

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• There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

  

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• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  

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• Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

  

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• When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.

  

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• The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

  

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• Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

  

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• They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

  

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• When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

  

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• We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.

  

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• The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

  

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• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

  

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• When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

  

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• The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Learned
  • Vibrations
  • Violet