Victor Hugo Quotes
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
Victor Hugo
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
The labour of digging
and watering, the anxious zeal with which I
pounced on weeds, the poring over gardening
books, the plans made as I sat on the little seat
in the middle gazing admiringly and with the
eye of faith on the trim surface so soon to be
gemmed with a thousand flowers, the reckless
expenditure of pfennings^ the humiliation of my
position in regard to Fraulein Wundermacher,
all, all had been in vain.
Elizabeth von Arnim
It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.
Hillary Clinton
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
Caitriona Balfe
I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular order, witnessing how his mind works, hearing him learn a new word. I'm alive in these special moments because I never knew a love like this.
Alicia Keys
It was a great year to go out on. I thought I played up to my potential, that I might not have done my previous two years. I was very happy with my play. I felt that I gave the team a chance to win every time we played.
Brad Roberts
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
Victor Hugo
