Victor Hugo Quotes

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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• If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Men
  • Law
  • Liberty

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Time
  • Business
  • Together

• I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Egg

• I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Care

• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • America
  • Culture
  • Period

• Is it two? Three? Leave a good tip, Imma blow all my money and don't give two shits.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Good
  • Money
  • Giving

• They agreed to have their volunteers and vendors and everyone park off site and they were going to provide a shuttle to bring them back and forth.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Volunteers
  • Shuttle
  • Vendors

• If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Up
  • Ends
  • Ifs

• Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kids

• There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Energy
  • Interviewed

• The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Inspiration
  • Liberty
  • Common Sense

• I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fear

• So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Purpose
  • Ignorance
  • Torture

• One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Luck
  • Found
  • Madness

• The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.

  

  Artie Lange
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Up
  • Stories
  • Sea

• For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners, events and shows - even the occasional freebie - but the best part is getting to sit down with and talk to people that have done great things. You quickly realize that no matter who you're talking to, how famous, brilliant or wealthy they are, they are just "people."

  

  Ben Clymer
  • People
  • Brands
  • Great Things

• Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit.

  

  George Wither
  • Wit
  • Scorn
  • Flit

• I'm sure the red fern has grown and has completely covered the two little mounds. I know it is still there, hiding its secret beneath those long, red leaves, but it wouldn't be hidden from me for part of my life is buried there, too. Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.

  

  Wilson Rawls
  • Long
  • Secret

• He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Triumphs
  • Spilled