Victor Hugo Quotes
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
Quotes to Explore
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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I'm a darned good listener.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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But it is hard to know them flatterers from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
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I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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If you have 50 years in the business, you can probably count on only five good movies.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
