Victor Hugo Quotes

God was bored by him.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Driving
  • Gun
  • Season

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Human
  • Demons

• Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • More
  • Left
  • Irritating

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Cool
  • Really

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I hate seaweed.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Hate
  • Seaweed

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and sisters.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Up
  • Good
  • Children

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• 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

• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Power
  • Remember
  • System

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Consistency

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • God
  • Moral

• Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before them so that they can see what it means, where it errs, and where it is leading.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Writing

• One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Just
  • Ready

• She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Men
  • She

• I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.

  

  Whitney Thompson
  • Change
  • Someone
  • Fail

• God was bored by him.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Bored