Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
-
I never wrote my books especially for children.
-
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
-
I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
-
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
-
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
-
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
-
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
-
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
-
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
-
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
-
I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
-
I will run against anybody.
-
I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
-
I'm proud of my sexuality.
-
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
-
I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
-
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
-
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
-
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
-
The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion- very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.
-
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
-
The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'
-
History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
