Victor Hugo Quotes

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

Victor Hugo

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• Fright

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• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Work
  • Love
  • Genius

• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Work
  • Day
  • Professional

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Want
  • Punishment

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Sleep
  • Unfortunate

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Look

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Music
  • Black

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Never

• I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.

  

  J Balvin
  • Life
  • Fighting

• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Human
  • Affairs

• And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Great
  • Lost

• You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Truth
  • Night

• Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one moment of their lives over and over, so you get really good at figuring out how to navigate it. TV was a huge adjustment for me because the script changes every episode, and you have a different set of circumstances.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Night
  • Curiosity
  • Fright