Victor Hugo Quotes

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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• I was very rebellious.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Very
  • Rebellious

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Great
  • Lost

• It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

  

  Jack Vance

• It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • World
  • Live

• Why should it be my loneliness, Why should it be my song, Why should it be my dream deferred overlong?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Why
  • Song
  • Dream

• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Up
  • Light
  • River

• It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Bad
  • Vacation

• In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

  

  Chris Milk
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Brain

• I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Fear

• Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Emotional

• I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk

• In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

  

  Maud Adams

• As far as being on the officials every five minutes, it's just not good for the game. The officials don't like it; you embarrass them, so it's just not good. Now, every now and then they might make a bad call, but officiating is hard.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Fight
  • Defend
  • Submission

• Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

  

  John M. Ford
  • True
  • Reality
  • Author

• If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up

• The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Time
  • American
  • Justice

• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bird
  • Infinite
  • Claw