Victor Hugo Quotes

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.

Victor Hugo

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• I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Country
  • America
  • New

• I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Help
  • Internet

• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Rather
  • Million

• You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • You
  • Everything
  • Insight

• It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Future
  • Today
  • Past

• I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Hospital

• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Leadership
  • More
  • Leaders

• All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Old

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• 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

• Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Person
  • Find
  • Definitely

• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Soul

• Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Books

• My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Flowers
  • Goldfish

• I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Friends
  • Candle
  • Foes

• There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Character
  • Passion
  • Ambition

• Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Joy
  • Intelligence

• Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Real
  • Science
  • Term

• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Common Sense

• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Means
  • Available