Jules Verne Quotes

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

Jules Verne

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• I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • First
  • Inside
  • Weapons

• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Water
  • Myself
  • Naked

• But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Good
  • Team
  • Attention

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Natural
  • Anything

• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Kind
  • Mean
  • Vicious

• Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Energy

• There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Respect

• I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Care
  • Actor

• I have to have coffee in the morning.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• Dubbed as a Knight of the Order of Saint Sebastian, I espoused the cause of pure colour, which has been invaded by guile, occupied and oppressed in cowardly fashion by line and its manifestation; drawing in Art. I aimed to defend and deliver it, and lead it to triumph and final glory.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Drawing

• Losing your parent is unlike anything.

  

  Jenny Lewis

• Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Gym

• I've always been self-conscious about my personality.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Personality

• I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Different

• In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

  

  Franz Boas
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • World

• I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Obstacles
  • Chairs

• The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Beginning
  • Effort
  • Voice

• Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Musician

• I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Support
  • Mistake

• Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Important
  • Power
  • War

• It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Beginning
  • Surprise
  • Assume