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Jules Verne Quotes

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Science World Musicians Engineers

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Nature Truth Great Human Nature Tell

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

People Know Want Experiences Own

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

Today Myself Tomorrow Interesting

Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

Mom Church Something Going Stuff

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom Economic Surplus By-Product

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

Things Forgive Forgiving Most Very

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

People You Kind Meet Get Reporter

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

Learning Rich Famous America Flaws

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Father Childhood Me Born Teach Way

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.

New York American New Way Where

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

Time Challenge Me Think Better You

Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.

Life Business Time People Networking

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