Victor Hugo Quotes

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

Victor Hugo

• Art
• Music Is
• Ocean Of Clouds

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Trying
  • Better
  • Said

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Taste

• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Different
  • Paint

• I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Die
  • Grandparents
  • Village

• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Man
  • Happiness

• Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • People
  • Work
  • Appreciate

• The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Name
  • Republican
  • Some

• I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Today

• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Pretty
  • Fight
  • Honest

• Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Single

• The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Jesus

• “If plain run is good enough for I, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? Because we have no choice in the matter. The decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever.”

  

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
  • Decision
  • Grammar
  • Fixed

• It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • Past

• I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Art
  • Care
  • Tears

• Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Music Is
  • Ocean Of Clouds