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

• 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

• 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

• 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 saw a report on the news: 'Peter Dinklage tweeted... ' What? You know, I don't need any of that stuff. I got an email account; that's all I need.

  

  Peter Dinklage

• Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

  

  Ellen Goodman
  • Good

• Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

  

  Dennis Eckersley
  • Tears

• To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Real
  • Picture
  • Painting

• There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Real
  • Reason
  • Incomprehensible

• Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

  

  Russell Meriwether Hughes
  • Soul
  • Control

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

  

  Jules Verne
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Believed