Victor Hugo Quotes

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

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• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Men
  • Job
  • Modeling

• A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Smart
  • Information

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hand
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Successful
  • Look

• Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Up
  • Want
  • Choice

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • World
  • Science
  • End

• Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Character
  • Play
  • Story

• You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Good
  • May

• Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words

• The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Society
  • Priority

• When you get out in the field, it's just like any other game. You want to be the same player, the same team that has gotten them to that point. I don't think you have to do anything special. Just be yourself and allow all the time you put in that take over and get the job done.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Team
  • Player
  • Point

• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Opinions
  • Wait
  • Economists

• Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Blessed

• I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Great
  • Society
  • Popular

• It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.

  

  Plutarch
  • Live
  • True

• Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Brain
  • Genius
  • Superhuman