Victor Hugo Quotes
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
Iain McGilchrist -
I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
Walter Winchell -
I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
Bai Ling -
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot -
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
Saina Nehwal -
Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
Rachel Boston -
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
Tahar Rahim
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler -
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis -
Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
Olivier Theyskens -
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
Samuel P. Huntington -
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
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Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
Hattie McDaniel -
We must learn to see the world anew.
Albert Einstein -
I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
Tamsin Egerton -
In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for.
Tom Berenger -
Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
Victor Hugo