Victor Hugo Quotes

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Victor Hugo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWisePeopleBooksTroubles

I've a Scottish estate and places in Leeds, Bournemouth, Scarborough, Regent's Park. I'm at home in them all.

Jimmy Savile

HomePlacesParkEstateScottish

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Jodi Picoult

SuccessAwardsGetLiteraryWriters

Film is forever.

Angela Bassett

ForeverFilm

We go into the studio with the mindset of simply wanting to make something great.

Rozonda Thomas

GreatMindsetGoSomethingWanting

My dad never wanted to push what he did on us. It was more, for him, if you chose to do this, then we're going to do it, and we're going to get it right. It was, 'I know how to do it. I'm going to teach you how to do it because I want you to be good at it.'

Michelle Carter

GoodPushYouKnowWantNever

My kids download 10 games. They play them all for two minutes. They throw away the eight they don't like. Then they play those last two obsessively for a month. That's alien to those of us who buy a $60 game and play it for 40 or 50 hours. The discovery mechanism is completely social, and I don't think you get that genie back in the bottle.

Mitch Lasky

GameThinkYouDiscoveryAlienPlay

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away and think about things.

Anne Reid

GoodTimeMeThinkSomeoneGo

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

Alfred Schnittke

ExperienceYouKnowFirstVery

The different foods and cultures and geography and art - I could spend my lifetime traveling around India and still not fully know it.

Shenaz Treasury

ArtIndiaKnowGeographyCultures

I'm not equipped for the social media thing.

Ryan Eggold

Social MediaMediaSocialThing

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.

Murray Rothbard

FamousCreditBankPanicMostViews

Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

Martin Filler

ProcessDesignStrongerGroupPlaces

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