Jules Verne Quotes

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• I loved the world of imagination.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Loved

• There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Process

• I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Way
  • Best
  • How

• There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • American
  • America
  • Nature

• It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • School
  • Girl
  • Name

• I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Just
  • Vampire
  • Others

• It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Together
  • Death
  • Lead

• My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • She
  • Support

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• 'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Great
  • King

• Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Politicians
  • Useless

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Way
  • Path
  • Reach

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Life
  • True
  • Parents

• When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Married
  • Take Time

• Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Share

• Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

  

  Jules Verne
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  • Figures