Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
-
We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
-
I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
-
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
-
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
-
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
-
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
-
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
-
Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
-
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
-
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
-
I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
-
My best friend is my husband.
-
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
-
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
-
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
-
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
-
My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
-
I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.
-
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
-
Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.
-
It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
-
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
-
What love commences can be finished by God alone.
