Jules Verne Quotes
Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?Jules Verne
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
Harriet Walter -
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
Sally Ride -
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.
Edgar Wright -
Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative.
Elvis Mitchell -
No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.
Jason Aldean -
Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Kevin Spacey
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Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
Laini Taylor -
Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.
Angelina Jolie -
In the Making Of book ["300"] there's a guy named Victor Davis Hanson who is a a frickin genius. He's a Greek historian and we showed him the movie because I wanted him to write a forward to the Making Of book. I was a little nervous to be honest, because I wasn't sure how he'd react.
Zack Snyder -
I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.
Barack Obama -
I was gonna live with Todd Gill, another young player, and the general manager grabbed me by the collar, put me against the wall and said, 'You're living with a family. Find one,'
Luke Richardson -
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
Vance Havner
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Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)
Paul Strand -
The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde -
A starving army is actually worse than none.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.
Susan Beth Pfeffer -
Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
Jules Verne