Victor Hugo Quotes

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Victor Hugo

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• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Music
  • Friends

• I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Up
  • Done
  • Kids

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Art
  • You
  • Alive

• We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Family
  • Care
  • Employees

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Why
  • Movie

• …jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Stupid

• I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Done

• We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

  

  David Elliott
  • Time
  • Live
  • Art

• I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Food

• I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Growth
  • Enough
  • Economic

• Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Understand
  • Rules
  • Break

• You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Death
  • Bible

• It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bible
  • England
  • Shakespeare