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Quotes About Hugo

Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
~ Victor Hugo
a Breton archer from the guard of Monsieur de Berry.
~ Victor Hugo
Who's there? cried a toothless voice.
~ Victor Hugo
All around her mouth, tufts of white hair gave her the whiskered appearance of a cat.
~ Victor Hugo
although his love affair with Madame Hugo was not calculated to reinforce it.
~ Clive James
Venezuela has the largest oil reserve, and Venezuela has to defend itself.
~ Hugo Chavez
Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially when the great man's prophecy was about to apply to him? He
~ Jeffrey Archer
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
~ Victor Hugo
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
~ Victor Hugo
she seemed to me all but crazy with admiration for that Monsieur Hugo. I'm sure I don't know where such people" (Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Byron being such people to the Madame Latournelles of the bourgeoisie) "get their ideas. Modeste kept talking to me of Childe Harold, and as I did not wish to get the worst of the argument I was silly enough to try to read the thing.
~ Honore de Balzac
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
~ Hugo Weaving
Tom Hooper did an amazing job in capturing the feel of Victor Hugo's book. I thought some of the performances were incredible. I thought the Bishop would be a nice part to play, and they all made such a fuss of me being there.
~ Colm Wilkinson
Right now Verna is blaming everyone. She's broken, she's terrified, and she's not rational. And, I'm not sure she's getting good advice. I got the impression these guys are sitting around the table, her table, scheming ways to sue anyone who's remotely connected to Hugo's death.
~ John Grisham
Hugo was murdered, Michael, and we can't solve it. I doubt seriously if the Tappacola can either." "Are you suggesting the FBI?
~ John Grisham
I had a fascination with 3D that goes back to the View-Master. I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D. It's like a combination of theatre and film. There's something 3D gives to a movie that takes you to another land. Working with RealD creatively was a liberating experience. Thank you RealD for allowing us to make something like Hugo .
~ Martin Scorsese
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
~ Victor Hugo
For he was their Victor Hugo. And his Paris, the Paris of Esmeralda and Jean Valjean, would live forever.
~ Unknown
She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free. Life and Death and the Quantum Wave Function With Hugo, it wasn't a library.
~ Matt Haig
The one thing I don't glean any information about is her husband, so I let my imagination go to town. I imagine he's called Hugo, works at an art college and specialises in multimedia (whatever that is). At the weekend he plays football and squash and is currently in training for the London Marathon. In addition to this he plays the saxophone, is younger than me, and permanently smells of cinnamon. Make no mistake, Hugo is a right tosser.
~ Mike Gayle
The one think i don't glean any information about is her husband, so I let my imagination go to town. I imagine he's called Hugo, works at an art college and specialises in multimedia (whatever that is). At the weekend he plays football and squash and is currently in training for the London Marathon. In addition to this he plays the saxophone, is younger than me, and permanently smells of cinnamon. Make no mistake, Hugo is a right tosser.
~ Mike Gayle
Ya saben que dentro de su lista de deberes está el contemplar y aplaudir las excentricidades de Hugo.
~ Moisés Naím
Petroalimentos, la empresa pública que Hugo ha puesto en marcha bajo la proclama de distribuir alimentos subsidiados a los más necesitados.
~ Moisés Naím
MUR LAFFERTY is an award-winning author and Hall of Fame podcaster. She's the author of the Nebula- and Hugo-nominated Best Novel finalist Six Wakes, along with the Shambling Guides series, and host of the popular Ditch Diggers and I Should Be Writing podcasts. She also co-edits the Hugo-nominated podcast magazine Escape Pod. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, daughter, and two dogs, where she runs, plays computer and board games, and bakes bread.
~ Mur Lafferty
Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) was a bestselling and award-winning author, considered one of the best science fiction writers of her generation. She received both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first author of science fiction to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. She was also awarded the prestigious PEN Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
~ Octavia E. Butler