Jules Verne Quotes

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

Jules Verne

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• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Good
  • Know
  • Size

• I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • World
  • Travel
  • Husband

• I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Jump

• Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Compassion
  • Loving

• I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Always
  • Sad
  • Paradise

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Words
  • Simple
  • Present

• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • World
  • Ugly

• I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • May
  • Technology

• San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • America

• The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Movie
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Inspired

• 'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Done
  • Movie

• The unknown is very scary.

  

  Kyle Shewfelt
  • Scary
  • Unknown

• I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Remember
  • Past

• I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.

  

  Alveda King
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Faith

• We haven't developed what some have called the precautionary principle which will say look, if there's a reason, if a product is safe, that's fine, but it's really the responsibility of an industry to tell us it's safe and to make sure it's safe. It's not our responsibility to wait until the damage is done.

  

  David Rosner
  • Done
  • Responsibility
  • Reason

• The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Problem
  • Ideology
  • Art Model

• He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Believed