Victor Hugo Quotes

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Victor Hugo

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Girl

• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Real
  • Game
  • Fire

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Miracles

• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Own
  • Every
  • Cast

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Life
  • Being
  • Just

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Republican
  • Democrat
  • Nor

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We did a good job of being patient. Wakefield didn't have good command, and we did a good job of being patient and getting good swings. If we get on base, these guys do a job of driving us home.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Patient
  • Command
  • Swings

• The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Book
  • Know
  • Better

• The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • End
  • Thing
  • Cause

• The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis­turbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thing
  • Unity
  • Removed

• I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Light
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Thing
  • Darkness
  • Pressure