Victor Hugo Quotes
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt -
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
Salmon P. Chase -
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
Ednita Nazario -
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness -
By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
Kate Reardon
-
I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
Paige Butcher -
When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
Aasif Mandvi -
The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
Earl Butz -
History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker -
Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
T. Harv Eker
-
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
Gail Collins -
I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
Aaron Sorkin -
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden -
I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
Verne Troyer -
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
Barbra Streisand -
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
Malcolm de Chazal
-
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
Nolan Bushnell -
If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.
Lenny Wilkens -
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.
Edward T. Hall -
It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.
Gary Gaetti -
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo