"But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but……" — Jules Verne
"But Phileas Fogg, who was not traveling, but only describing a circumfrence,..."
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
Jules Verne has 151 quotes on this site.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by…
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for…
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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More Describing Quotes
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
— Margaret Atwood
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture…
— Anita Baker
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight…
— Steven Biko
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I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion,…
— Conrad Black
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so…
— Niels Bohr
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Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
— Robert Bork
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What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing…
— Julie Burchill
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I'm not in the business of telling people what to do. I'm much more in the business of describing things,…
— Nick Cave
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Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is…
— Diablo Cody
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Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of…
— Roger Penrose
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