Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Victor Hugo

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Victor Hugo

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Victor Hugo

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.

Victor Hugo

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Andres Iniesta

There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect,

Chuck Palahniuk

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Daniel Keyes

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

Conor Oberst

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

Daniel D. Palmer

Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.

Dan Brown

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

David Foster Wallace

I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.

Dave Brubeck

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

Confucius

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

Nick Harkaway

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

Michael Jackson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.

William Arthur Ward

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

William Joyce

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

William Irwin Thompson

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Butler Yeats

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

Walter Savage Landor

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Walter Dean Myers

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

William Jones

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets...