Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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• The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Truth
  • Sarcastic

• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Freedom

• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Want
  • Lose

• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Past
  • Really
  • Obsessed

• The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finding

• I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Think
  • Support
  • Learn

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Politics
  • Hell
  • Vote

• Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nothing
  • Will
  • Worth

• The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Judge
  • Green

• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Future
  • Success
  • Carry

• The professionals must set a good example.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Good
  • Example
  • Good Example

• I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Acting
  • Need
  • Down

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love
  • Loved
  • More

• I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act … Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Wish
  • Universe

• The watchword is only one, categorical and challenging for everyone. It already flies across and lights the hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: Winning! And we will win, in order to finally give a long period of peace with justice to Italy, to Europe, to the world. (From the declaration of war's announce, 10 June 1940)

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • World
  • Long
  • War

• When you put on music, just feel it; it's a different sense. I walk around with music in, and it can just change my world in seconds.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Fun
  • Rock

• I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • House
  • Battle
  • Spy

• It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Black
  • Problem
  • Beginning

• If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Pray
  • Kingdom

• Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton