Victor Hugo Quotes
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
Dan Quinn -
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
Walker Percy -
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Lars von Trier -
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
Jack Brickhouse -
I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
Babe Paley -
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
Barbara Amiel -
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
Mads Mikkelsen -
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
Naveen Andrews -
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
Yahoo Serious -
What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
Dan Rosensweig -
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
Laura Wade -
I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar -
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
Ford Frick -
I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.
Armie Hammer
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I'd really love to be a versatile, chameleon-like actress, stretching myself a bit.
Gabriella Wilde -
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran -
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.
Winfield Scott -
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
Brian Celio -
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
Victor Hugo