Victor Hugo Quotes

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

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• My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Understood

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• Only in your imagination can you revise.

  

  Fay Wray
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Only

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Intelligence
  • Attracted

• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Doing

• I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Sea

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Book
  • Day
  • Passion

• Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • People
  • Man
  • Wife

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Intelligence

• I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Career

• Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Kindness
  • Intelligence

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Novels

• Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wife
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence