Victor Hugo Quotes

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Victor Hugo

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• Runs
• Brave Man
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• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • World
  • Dance
  • Sister

• Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Long
  • Black
  • Pain

• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Air

• Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Book
  • Week
  • Two

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• You have to know why you get up every morning.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • Why
  • Know

• If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Pretty
  • Sick
  • Integrity

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Life
  • Music
  • Night

• It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Cool

• When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.

  

  David Thewlis
  • World
  • Job

• A man's kiss is his signature.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Romantic
  • Kiss

• While I was shooting for 'NH10,' my hair had to look dirty in the film. To improve the texture... quality of hair, I had to use a lot of conditioner.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Quality
  • Hair
  • Dirty

• It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Time
  • Art
  • Quality

• Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Earth
  • Quality
  • Taken

• Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Quality
  • Runs
  • Brave Man