Jules Verne Quotes

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Jules Verne

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• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • World
  • Myself
  • Years

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Living

• Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Find

• People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Stop
  • Coffee

• From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Learning
  • Year
  • Research

• I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.

  

  Taliesin

• 'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'

  

  Jack Vance

• It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Music

• I think we've done that. But it's not something you really notice, 'cause I've always thought the people here have always done their best, and they continue to do their best. They just might do it a little bit differently.

  

  Mark Kelly
  • People
  • Done

• In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People

• I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

  

  Janice Hahn
  • Airplane

• I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • America
  • Mountain

• I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dancing The Dream

• To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

  

  Isabelle Eberhardt
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Alone

• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  

  Norman R. Augustine
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Covered

• If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Soul

• Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Errors