Victor Hugo Quotes
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
Lake Bell
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit
When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
Ice T
I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
Paloma Faith
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
Edie Falco
I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
T. C. Boyle
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono
Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
Major Owens
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Immanuel Kant
The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
J. M. Coetzee
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Dana Spiotta
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
Malin Akerman
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Camille Paglia
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
