Jules Verne Quotes

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Jules Verne

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Reason
  • Nobody

• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Play
  • Luck

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Woman
  • Enjoy

• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Work
  • Real
  • Day

• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Science

• He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Couple
  • Dog

• As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Reading

• I'll battle this bitter finale,Just me, my dignity and this guitar case.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Bitter

• One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Character
  • Single

• How can you eat anything with eyes?

  

  Will Keith Kellogg
  • Food
  • Health
  • Safety

• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Night
  • Light

• I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

  

  Clive Anderson
  • Different

• Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star. Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Reality
  • Perfect
  • Star

• In the beginning, me and my bandmates just did stuff on our own - we had smoke bombs, we'd dress as crazy and as weird as we possibly could, just to give ourselves a different ambience. But when we started making money, of course, the ideas started getting bigger. We were big fans of Broadway; we were like, "Man, when you go see a Broadway show, you just get pulled right out of reality; you're into their world for a two-hour period. It would be nice if we could do that onstage with a music concert".

  

  Philip Bailey Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Money
  • Reality
  • Crazy

• Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Reality
  • Romantic
  • Facts