Victor Hugo Quotes
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.Victor Hugo
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
Florence Henderson -
I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
Malcolm D. Lee -
I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
Dak Prescott -
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy -
There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
Van Morrison -
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
Salma Hayek -
I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham -
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
Larry Ellison -
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Dan Rather -
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
Pankaj Mishra
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
Fat Joe -
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
Daniel Barenboim -
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Fannie Hurst -
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman -
To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
Fernando Pessoa
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I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings.
Jonathan Galassi -
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
Jules Verne -
Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
Nadine Gordimer -
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
Elihu Root -
My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
Victor Hugo