Victor Hugo Quotes

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Victor Hugo

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Think
  • Ask
  • Actually

• Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Real

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Man
  • Action

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • School
  • Want
  • Yourself

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Power
  • Hate
  • Trump

• Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Work
  • God

• Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Today

• Advice, n. The smallest current coin.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Advice

• I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Drama

• Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • People
  • She
  • Moving

• I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.

  

  Lemon Andersen
  • Black

• You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Gym

• The heavy spacesuits are spectacular to look at but very hot. Putting one on was like going from chilly London winter weather to the Bahamas in just minutes.

  

  Kathleen Quinlan
  • Winter

• I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.

  

  Jim Knight
  • Important
  • House

• To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  

  Charles Sheffield
  • People
  • Couple
  • Effort

• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  

  Eleanor Antin
  • Dark
  • Parallels
  • Annihilation

• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • America
  • Best

• The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Feeling
  • Purpose
  • Connection

• The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Paradise
  • Created