Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

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• Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • True
  • Reality

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I don't really do sad, depressing songs.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Sad
  • Songs
  • Depressing

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • You
  • Driving

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Work
  • Money
  • Kids

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Live
  • May
  • Hope

• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Man
  • Black

• I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Day
  • Myself

• I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Book

• A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

  

  Martin Feldstein
  • Value

• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Wise
  • Fool