Jules Verne Quotes
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.Jules Verne
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
Laura Wade -
I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
Samantha Cameron -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
Earl Weaver -
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King -
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
Zendaya
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
Irving Paul Lazar -
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden -
All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
Barack Obama -
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
Fernando Pessoa -
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all
Harold Wilson
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
Frances Bean Cobain -
'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
Anne Rice -
Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
Anthony Trollope -
Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
Colin Wilson -
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
Marcus Aurelius -
These are not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.
Clyfford Still
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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
Nadeem Aslam -
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
Max Lerner -
Seien Sie außer Sorge, nach Kanossa gehen wir nicht, weder körperlich noch geistig.
Otto von Bismarck -
What I have suffered you cannot imagine. But what I'm going through circa 1878 now is even worse, much more so than when I was young.. ..because now I feel as if I have no future. Even so, if I had to do it again, I still think I wouldn't hesitate.
Camille Pissarro -
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
Jules Verne