Victor Hugo Quotes

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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• A friend got me a job on the door of the Camden Palace nightclub, which quickly progressed to running the place.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Friend
  • Place

• I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Sound
  • Freak

• I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!

  

  Pat Cash
  • Winning
  • More
  • Very

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Impact

• Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Job
  • Experience

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Will

• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Energy
  • Myself
  • Limit

• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Most
  • India
  • Partners

• I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Same

• To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Quality
  • Democracy

• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parents
  • College
  • Imagination

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your life around your vocation, you knew you'd be completely segregated.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Remember

• I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Life
  • Reality

• There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • People
  • Mind
  • Strong

• How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable - not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity - the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.

  

  John Ruskin
  • God
  • Mind
  • Sea

• You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

  

  Neelie Kroes
  • Period
  • Warning
  • Antitrust

• Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Ideas
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