Victor Hugo Quotes

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Victor Hugo

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everybody
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• 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.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• I'm a darned good listener.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Listener
  • Darned

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • You
  • Chance
  • Overcome

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• 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.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Trying
  • Study
  • Struggle

• Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Different
  • Question
  • Sex

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Know
  • Position

• I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • Party
  • System

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Organization
  • Clear
  • Only

• We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Children
  • Future

• I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Fire
  • Fool

• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Money
  • Mercy
  • Bank

• When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Tired
  • Beat
  • Racing

• One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Humans
  • Differences
  • States

• Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Price
  • Boldness