Jules Verne Quotes
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
Quotes to Explore
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
-
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
-
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
-
In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
-
It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
-
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
-
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
-
My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
-
It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
-
'Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment,' I quoted.
-
Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
-
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
-
I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
-
I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.
-
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
-
I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
-
Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.
-
It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.
-
If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.
-
Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.
