Victor Hugo Quotes

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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• I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Very
  • Early
  • Knew

• Apparently, the city of Delhi is a 'character' in my novels. I'd argue that it's a ... city... in my novels.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Character
  • City
  • Delhi

• I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Enough
  • Hunger
  • Vampire

• It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pain

• She wondered if she could put a dart in his eye. It would not kill him, but it might take the edge off his cockiness.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • She

• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• I think the game situation probably dictated the way I was prepared to play today.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Today
  • Game
  • Way

• It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.

  

  Daisy Whitney
  • People

• Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • World
  • Men
  • Light

• When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound; when Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the guilty world around.

  

  William Billings
  • World
  • Fall
  • Passion

• I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

  

  Topher Grace
  • Working
  • Peers
  • Embracing

• The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.

  

  Sania Mirza
  • Earth
  • Sports
  • Gentleman

• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Personality

• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.

  

  James Hutton
  • Rock
  • Study
  • Philosopher

• He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Tree
  • Sound
  • Falls

• The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stone
  • Symbol
  • Falls