Alexandre Dumas Quotes

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

Alexandre Dumas

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• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
  • Best
  • Professional

• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Die
  • Ship

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Family
  • Movie
  • You

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Thought
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Better
  • Spring

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religion
  • Sound
  • Say

• I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Why
  • Positive

• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Champion
  • Wait

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

  

  William R. Ferris
  • Country
  • Tradition
  • Artifacts

• The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Book
  • Father

• Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

  

  David D. Burns
  • Suffering
  • Honor
  • Hero

• Ben Miller's writing has left a trail of clear and perfect images lasered permanently in my mind. His imagination is astounding in its breadth and detail, but it is the heart behind the words, the emotion he brings to the smallest moments, that makes me such an admirer of this writer and his work, and has me anxiously awaiting, and cheering for, the publication of River Bend Chronicle.

  

  Hannah Tinti
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Imagination
  • Dreams
  • Rapid