Jules Verne Quotes

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Jules Verne

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Know
  • Everyone

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Me
  • Fool
  • Shame

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Love
  • American
  • America

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Experience
  • Lost

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Want
  • Change
  • Act

• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Hard Work

• We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Path
  • End

• I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • World
  • Light

• Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.

  

  Hannah More
  • Small

• I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moral
  • Assumption

• I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.

  

  Alexander Woollcott
  • God
  • Wish
  • Sympathy

• Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Different
  • Me
  • Perfect

• Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Great
  • Food
  • Perfect

• I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.

  

  Kate Simon
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Taken

• Man is never perfect nor contented.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Perfect
  • Man Is
  • Contented