Victor Hugo Quotes

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Victor Hugo

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• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Person
  • Race
  • Type

• I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Father
  • Person
  • Felt

• I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Know
  • Cool
  • Person

• There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Black
  • Light
  • Darkness

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Work
  • Person
  • First

• I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Person
  • Armani
  • Dolce & Gabbana

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Life
  • Person
  • Fantastic

• I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Person
  • Angry
  • Principled

• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Stars
  • Form
  • Planets

• When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Me
  • Person
  • Blow

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Dance
  • Person
  • Sex

• A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Woman

• And we recall, with a gleaming stab of sadness,Vaguely and incoherently, some dreamOf a world we came from, a world of sun-blue hills . . .A black wood whispers around us, green eyes gleam;Someone cries in the forest, and someone kills.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • World
  • Black
  • Eyes

• When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Eclipse

• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Heart
  • May
  • Home

• Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Why
  • Everyone

• When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Democracy
  • Wonder
  • Bush

• A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Person
  • Sun
  • Darkness