Victor Hugo Quotes

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Victor Hugo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

Topics

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When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.

John Larroquette

PeopleDoingYouSayAskDegree

I ended up moving downtown with these three dudes that I didn't really know. I came into the house, and I didn't realize how things worked. From, like, 15-18, I was just fighting them. I fought, like, every day, and these were, like, older dudes. It was every man for himself.

Tory Lanez

DayManMovingFightingHouseKnow

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

Romola Garai

WorkAmericanMeetingsDoingYou

We should never have any political or religious organization filter our news.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

OrganizationPoliticalNewsNever

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

Dax Shepard

LifeMyselfJobMy LifeActingBeen

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

Chuck Palahniuk

MarketingNicheBooksFit

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Alison Gopnik

KnowledgePracticeYouAutomatic

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Mark McGwire

SteroidsSubstanceDidUseOnceAny

I do stay busy. I like new challenges.

Kirk Kerkorian

ChallengesBusyNewStayLike

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.

Howard Graham Buffett

TogetherLaborDoneNeverFarmers

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

TimeDefeatFraudNationUpMay

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

Ernest Holmes

SpiritualColdThoughtIntellectual

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