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Jules Verne Quotes

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Words Walls Man Ideas Lose Up

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

Jesse Kellerman

Time Job First Office Degree Earned

I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.

Dreams Great Time Childhood Think

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

Comedy Place Line Darkest Fine Ever

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Alone Loneliness Solitude Self

Donald is intensely loyal. To family, friends, employees, country.

Family Friends Employees Country

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Robert Kiyosaki

Trust Team Lesson Sometimes Hardest

In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he'd written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.

Morning Ideas Down Terrible Would

If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.

Me Homeless End Behavior Sharing Up

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Joseph de Maistre

Good Evil Philosophy Place Nothing

It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.

Theatre Looking Comedy You Look

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

Work Think End You Try Tailor

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

Father Mother Myself Police Trouble

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