Jules Verne Quotes

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

Jules Verne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FearCourageDeathHandsNo Fear

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?

Joe R. Lansdale

BookBetterDamnWhyWriteFollow

I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.

Jennifer Coolidge

WomenMenWifeDoorRichSay

When you understand that making, saving, and spending money is all based on the thoughts you're thinking and the actions that these thoughts lead to, you can completely transform your reality - and your bank account.

Jen Sincero

MoneyThoughtsThinkingRealityYou

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

Andra Day

SchoolSingingPerformanceChurch

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

Maurice Saatchi

SlowWayGrammarWriteMostI Write

Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies.

John Zimmerman

InternetBeliefPlayingBasketOur

The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.

Stellan Skarsgard

YouSellingNowPopcornHardOut

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

Tom Hicks

SportsReadingInsightTwoOwnFan

My parents never really wanted me to be a musician at all, because in Peru you don't earn any money that way. But when they realised it was genuinely what I wanted to do, they supported me always.

Juan Diego Florez

MoneyParentsMeYouWayNever

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LiveLonelinessPeacePainSickness

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Douglas Hurd

HistoryDirectionFollowPoliticians

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

Cody Linley

GreatTimeParentsThinkDoingKnow

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