All Quotes

“The key is to not get distracted by what others are doing.”

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.”

“I am a fast runner, but I am also a great believer in hard work.”

“Dreams are free, so you should never stop dreaming.”

“When I step on the track, I feel at home.”

“Champions are made in the off-season, not on race day.”

“I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. Written at the age of 15 in one of his notebooks ( c . 1817), as quoted in The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century (1897) by Georges Pellissier”

“Ces deux moitiés de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur! These two halves of God , the Pope and the emperor. Hernani (1830), Act IV, Scene II”

“Dieu s'est fait homme; soit. Le diable s'est fait femme! God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman. Ruy Blas (1838), Act II, Scene V”

“La raison, c'est l'intelligence en exercice; l'imagination c'est l'intelligence en érection Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection. Unpublished notebook from 1845”

“Plaidoyer contre la peine de mort”

“One can no more pray too much than love too much. Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief! Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“The best way to worship God is to love your wife. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation. Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Thomas (June 24, 2013): Quotes & Illustrations From Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables . Archived from the original on March 11, 2023.”

“Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé. Histoire d'un crime. Déposition d'un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint”

“I am sure you will like it, it is such a fine business [art”

“Vincent's profession then was picture dealer at Goupil and Co. , with branches a. o. in The Hague, London and Paris”

“Vindt maar mooi zooveel je kunt, de meesten vinden niet genoeg mooi. Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful. From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [4]”

“Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see. From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [5]”

“I've got nature and art and poetry, and if that isn't enough, what is? From a letter to his brother Theo van Gogh, January 1874 [6]”

“Some time ago I saw a painting by Thijs Maris [= Matthijs Maris , one of the three brothers Maris, all three famous Dutch impressionist painters of the Hague School ] that reminded me of it. An old Dutch town with rows of brownish red houses with step”

“There was a sale here [in Paris] of drawings by Millet , I don't know whether I've already written to you about it. When I entered the room in Hôtel Drouot where they were exhibited, I felt something akin to: 'Put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground' [Bible”

“My dear Theo, Feeling, even a fine feeling, for the beauties of nature isn't the same as religious feeling, although I believe that the two are closely connected. The same is true of a feeling for art. Don't give in to that too much either. Hold fast especially to your love for the firm [of the Paris' art dealers Goupil & C0 , where both brothers worked”

“If I should find something it will probably be a position between clergy man and missionary in the suburbs of London among the working people. Do not speak to anybody about it yet. In his letter to brother Theo from Welwyn, England, 17 June 1876; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh , edited by Alfred H. Barr ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, p. 17”

“as school teacher and lay preacher near London”

“And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do. p. 28”

“I've got news for you, we invented it.”

“The ability to interact with a computer presence like you would a human assistant is becoming increasingly feasible. p. 30”

“The Internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see.”