Jules Verne Quotes
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
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I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
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Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
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I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.
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There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
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Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.
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The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
