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

• 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

• Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Mistake
  • Broken

• This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature
  • Bird

• It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Art

• Millions of kids are being maimed right now on Ritalin. I would have been given Ritalin. And there would have been no Sexual Personae, no nothing. We are castrating a whole generation of kids.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids

• The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be outdoors, to go to war; and the Greeks, both men and women alike, were fascinated by these stories. Maybe it was a safe way to explore the idea of women who could be equals of men.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Giving

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

  

  Jules Verne
  • Pain
  • Solitude
  • Isolation