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Victor Hugo Quotes

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Man Greatness People Country Numbers

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

Family American Someone Possible Got

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Angela Merkel

Education Learn New Skills High

Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.

Tony Scott

Family Day Every Day Talk Because

We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

Donald Trump

Hurt Want Soldiers Something Get

People always come up to me and say, Oh, you're Chloe Se-VIG-ny, right? Sevigny. Number seven, letter e.

Chloe Sevigny

People Me You Say Right Always

Cast parties are a lot of fun!

Chris Colfer

Fun Cast Parties Lot

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

Christian Camargo

Time Moment You Powerful Unique

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

Philip Pullman

Time Silence Need Rights Forgotten

If you look at the character of Sadness, they really nailed my eyebrows.

Phyllis Smith

Character Sadness You Look Eyebrows

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

Peter O'Toole

Time Book Think Year Chapter Say

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Thomas Merton

Love Spiritual Anything Things Just

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

Richard M. Nixon

Man People Think You Know Nothing