Jules Verne Quotes

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

Jules Verne

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Cold
  • Mood
  • Comfortable

• It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Cold
  • Police
  • Rules

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Power
  • Cold

• I want everybody to run at the same speed as me. But some people are more conscientious, they think more and they plan more. And they're more careful.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Same
  • Speed

• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Surprise
  • Speed
  • Secrecy

• Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Religious
  • Equality
  • Speech

• In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • War
  • Cold
  • Intensity

• I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • House
  • Cold
  • Ears

• And even if they hadn't told me, I would have known it was the coldest winter ever. Because I have not had one thought! I have not been able to complete a sentence in my own head! I find myself walking around going 'You know what, I should really... FUCK, IT'S COLD!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Cold
  • Walking
  • Winter

• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Language

• I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Heart
  • American
  • Soul

• I want government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Small

• I've grown up with racism my entire life. I've been bullied, sent to the hospital, beat up, I've been called a Chink and a Gook. Every single racial slur an Asian person can be called, I've been called it.

  

  Arden Cho
  • Racism
  • Grown-Up
  • Asian

• The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Cold
  • Speech
  • Speed