Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Tariq Ramadan

The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am really underlining the importance of this, because we really don't have very good memories. Remember - the Taliban in Afghanistan were not at all politicised in the beginning. They were just on about education. And then they were pushed by the Saudi and the Americans to be against the Russian colonisation, and as a result they came to be politicised.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Rick Riordan

Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d be____________________.

Steve Forbes

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

Shirley Temple

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

Ricky Schroder

'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

Richard Hammond

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

Richard Adams

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

Michael Ignatieff

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Alan Greenspan

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Philip Schultz

I do think that there is a profound reservoir of creativity and imagination in everyone I've ever met, and sometimes if someone is persistent and perversely obstinate enough to persevere, then they want to be helped. There is a way to help them.

Francis Spufford

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Cynthia Ozick

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.