Jules Verne Quotes

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

Jules Verne

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• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Good
  • Song
  • Wonderful

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• I don't look too far ahead.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Look
  • Far
  • Ahead

• My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• Leftism should be about the people. That's how it began.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Should
  • How

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Autumn

• Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t Wayne Gretzky’s platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Achievement

• Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

  

  Avicenna

• I'm going to fire everybody - that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.

  

  Anthony Scaramucci
  • Stop
  • Fire

• Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

  

  Lu Xun

• If a guy is tall, that's a plus, and he has to have a great personality. He needs to keep up with me because I can be an off-the-wall, aloof chatterbox sometimes! But if he's got some height on him... God bless.

  

  Meagan Tandy
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Want
  • Light

• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

  

  Augustus Hare
  • Light
  • Heaven
  • Wise

• The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

  

  Angela Lansbury
  • Important
  • Movie

• On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Rule