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Jules Verne Quotes

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: french
Birth: February 8, 1828 - March 24, 1905

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Nature Sea Speak End Will Globe

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

Work Morning People Go Up West

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

Work Beginning Creative I Am Book

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

Work Drawing Discovery Remembered

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.

Morning Day Prayer Me Song Person

Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.

King Early Martin Luther King Moved

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

Nature Great Artist Want Way Them

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Steven Millhauser

Moment River Me Story End First

I wanted a simple one-bedroom apartment that would impress people when they walked in but that was otherwise extremely comfortable and useful.

Simple People Comfortable Impress

Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy hat measuring out a classically proportioned French 75 - something he'd picked up on the Internet, he told me.

Hat Me Internet Long Village See

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.

Great Time Talent Engineering Help

I would have loved to meet David Bowie.

Loved Meet Would David Bowie Bowie

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Stars People Me Silly You Mad

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