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

• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Purpose

• 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

• The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sea

• 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

• If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Know
  • Honey
  • Rage

• 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

• We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • May
  • Purpose

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • inspirational

• 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