Victor Hugo Quotes

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Victor Hugo

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• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Important
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Children
  • Parenting

• I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Friend
  • Myself
  • Best

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Work
  • Done
  • Together

• I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • School
  • Friends
  • House

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Whom

• When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Down

• Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • Trying
  • Man

• To film in water is three times harder than just on land.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Water
  • Land
  • Three

• Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • History
  • Knowing
  • Scared

• People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Free

• You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• Error is the price we pay for progress.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Progress

• Peace to Ron G, Brucy B, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Peace

• I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I... must... not... look... like... a... baboon’s... backside.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Writing

• Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Power
  • Birth
  • Travels

• My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Tom Courtenay
  • Albert Finney
  • Ron Harwood

• The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Valiant
  • Faintherted