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

• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heart
  • Humanity
  • Immortality

• Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Someday

• Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Nation
  • Cowards
  • Ethic

• It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes.

  

  Rachel DeWoskin
  • Sky
  • Around
  • 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