Victor Hugo Quotes

We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

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• I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Rules

• I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Weird

• I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Married
  • Jealous

• I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • God
  • Worry

• Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

  

  Big Bill Broonzy
  • Happy
  • Wife
  • Guitar

• Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Great
  • Value
  • Challenge

• There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Waiting
  • Boy
  • Dog

• It's how you live that really counts.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Live
  • Counts

• We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People

• All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Desire
  • Hands
  • Burning

• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Sex

• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  

  C. Wagner
  • Up
  • Why
  • Individual

• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• Socialism tends to destroy wealth. Socialism does this by draining its vitality away. It does this by destroying the desirability of wealth as a wholesome value. Socialism kills the chance that any community can survive by browbeating the concept of vested ownership, on which community survival is always dependent in the end.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Community
  • Wealth
  • Socialism

• You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

  

  David Markson
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Opera

• These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reality
  • Remain
  • Patients

• We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Reader
  • Combination
  • Melancholy