Victor Hugo Quotes
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
Victor Hugo
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Patrick deWitt
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
Kaki King
I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
Paloma Faith
Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.
Katharine Ross
It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
Preston Sturges
I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.
Lynn Redgrave
Not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.
Cornelia Parker
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
Victor Hugo