Victor Hugo Quotes

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Victor Hugo

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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Reading
  • Doing
  • Mountain

• I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Care
  • Deepest

• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Problems
  • Down

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Anything
  • States
  • Collective

• Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Evil
  • Spiritual
  • Chance

• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Band

• I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

  

  Edmund White
  • Point
  • Novels
  • Seven

• The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Stop

• Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Single
  • Amazing
  • Travel

• Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Chicago

• It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Europe
  • China
  • France

• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Think

• Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Live
  • Today
  • Change

• We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Want
  • Give

• The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Political
  • Free

• True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Heart
  • Age

• Violence is not the monopoly of the exploiters and as such the exploited can use it too and, moreover, ought to use it when the moment arrives.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Violence

• I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Verse
  • Hissed