Victor Hugo Quotes

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

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• I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Believe
  • Positive

• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Knowing

• My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Deep
  • Child
  • Curiosity

• I'm always forming bands.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Bands
  • Forming

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
  • WIld

• I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Visualize

• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Job
  • Challenge

• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Way
  • Me
  • Fire

• When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Man
  • Comedy

• I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Music
  • Love
  • New York

• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Men
  • Years
  • Born

• Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Stupid
  • Coffee
  • Female

• Someone who takes love away from us devastates the cultural structure we've worked on all our lives, deprives us of that sort of Eden that until that moment had made us appear innocent and lovable. Human beings give the worst of themselves when their cultural clothes are torn off, and they find themselves facing the nakedness of their bodies, they feel the shame of them. In a certain sense the loss of love is the common experience closest to the myth of the expulsion from the earthly paradise: it's the violent end of the illusion of having a heavenly body, it's the discovery of one's own dispensability and perishability.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Experience
  • Discovery
  • Paradise

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stupid
  • Better
  • Intelligent