Victor Hugo Quotes

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Victor Hugo

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• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Speak
  • Step

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Look
  • Values

• Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Hit

• Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Live
  • Today

• I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Think
  • Film

• Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Imagination
  • Weird
  • WIld

• Everything we produce and consume has an impact on the environment, on social fabrics, and on the economy. This impact can be positive or negative and, frequently, some combination of the two.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • Environment
  • Positive

• We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us. ‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.'

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.

  

  Josh Holloway
  • Life
  • History
  • Existence

• By 2014, the war in Afghanistan will be over.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War

• You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

  

  Billy Koch

• That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Conscience
  • Mask