Jules Verne Quotes

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Jules Verne

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• My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • School
  • Mother
  • City

• I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Think
  • Single

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Want
  • Saying

• I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Mean
  • Tough

• The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Great
  • Power

• At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Family
  • Law
  • Son

• Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Important
  • Money
  • Movie

• Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

  

  Al McGuire
  • Time
  • Important
  • War

• For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Strong

• I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Light

• I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Work

• All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Boyfriend

• I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Great
  • inspirational
  • Ocean

• Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • Live

• The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Work
  • Knowledge

• This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

  

  W. A. Criswell
  • God
  • Pain
  • Joy

• As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • Feelings
  • Dying
  • Anger

• Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility
  • Pain

• Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Pain
  • Solitude
  • Isolation