Victor LaValle quote: "The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list."

One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up l...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other w...
VICTOR LAVALLE

What's beautiful about Godzilla is, of course, it's in every way a symbol of Japan dealing w...
VICTOR LAVALLE

'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H...
VICTOR LAVALLE

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I...
VICTOR LAVALLE

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
VICTOR LAVALLE

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a night...
VICTOR LAVALLE

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand ex...
VICTOR LAVALLE

I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had ...
VICTOR LAVALLE

'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it ca...
VICTOR LAVALLE

There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I ...
VICTOR LAVALLE

For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch wit...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pret...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Social media give me the privilege of learning about more people than I could meet in my whole life....
VICTOR LAVALLE

I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong ...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
VICTOR LAVALLE

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes ju...
VICTOR LAVALLE

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
VICTOR LAVALLE

The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Numb...
VICTOR LAVALLE

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is ...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, mult...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The ...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. Peopl...
VICTOR LAVALLE

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier imp...
VICTOR LAVALLE

One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man....
VICTOR LAVALLE

'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people d...
VICTOR LAVALLE

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get ...
VICTOR LAVALLE

I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised...
VICTOR LAVALLE

Queens, New York. The most ethnically diverse region not just in the United States, but on the entir...
VICTOR LAVALLE

It's paid off. They were ready to go from the start.
GULLIVER LAVALLE

He's probably the best play maker in the state, in terms of skill and play on the ball.
GULLIVER LAVALLE

This was huge for us. We want to win region . . . and to do that, we had to win today. Had to.
GULLIVER LAVALLE

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
VICTOR CRUZ

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO

No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO

To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO

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

To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO

To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO

To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO

To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO

I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
VICTOR WEBSTER

I was raised doing martial arts.
VICTOR WEBSTER

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach v...
VICTOR WEBSTER

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that...
VICTOR WEBSTER

If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
VICTOR WEBSTER

I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s woul...
VICTOR WEBSTER

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.
VICTOR VASARELY

It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
VICTOR VASARELY

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of ...
VICTOR SALVA

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
VICTOR SALVA

I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of th...
VICTOR SALVA

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the...
VICTOR SALVA

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and ...
VICTOR SALVA

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '...
VICTOR SALVA

The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
VICTOR PONTA

Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
VICTOR PONTA

I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I...
VICTOR PONTA

Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.
VICTOR PONTA

There is no breach of European rules committed by companies from Romania or on Romanian territory.
VICTOR PONTA

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their ci...
VICTOR PONTA

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doct...
VICTOR PONTA

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
VICTOR PONTA

I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
VICTOR PONTA

Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communi...
VICTOR PONTA

Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial healt...
VICTOR PONTA

I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
VICTOR PONTA

All children should have equal opportunities.
VICTOR PONTA

We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and tran...
VICTOR PONTA

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded...
VICTOR PONTA

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
VICTOR PONTA

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
VICTOR PONTA

Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imba...
VICTOR PONTA

If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incenti...
VICTOR PONTA

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmenta...
VICTOR PONTA

The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a ...
VICTOR PONTA

I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fair...
VICTOR PONTA

All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achie...
VICTOR PONTA

Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and reg...
VICTOR PONTA

NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
VICTOR PONTA

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
VICTOR PINCHUK

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the ...
VICTOR PINCHUK

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
VICTOR PINCHUK

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market...
VICTOR PINCHUK

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and ...
VICTOR PINCHUK

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
VICTOR PINCHUK

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
VICTOR PINCHUK

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
VICTOR PINCHUK

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition fo...
VICTOR PINCHUK

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.
VICTOR PINCHUK

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
VICTOR PINCHUK

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and r...
VICTOR PAPANEK

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
VICTOR PAPANEK

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
VICTOR PAPANEK

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed m...
VICTOR ORTIZ

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to ...
VICTOR ORTIZ

I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the...
VICTOR ORTIZ

When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I...
VICTOR ORTIZ

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sis...
VICTOR ORTIZ

I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn&...
VICTOR ORTIZ

Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always wo...
VICTOR OLADIPO

I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
VICTOR OLADIPO

I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue t...
VICTOR OLADIPO

I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weak...
VICTOR MITCHELL

There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. ...
VICTOR MITCHELL

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
VICTOR MITCHELL

My son's a West Point cadet.
VICTOR MITCHELL

We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
VICTOR MITCHELL

We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
VICTOR MITCHELL

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
VICTOR MITCHELL

My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
VICTOR MITCHELL

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a publi...
VICTOR MITCHELL

My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anyb...
VICTOR MITCHELL

I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force...
VICTOR KOO

The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China wi...
VICTOR KOO

Youku Tudou kicked off 2014 in a positive direction. Mobile has become the number one screen for You...
VICTOR KOO

Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform ...
VICTOR KOO

Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunit...
VICTOR KOO

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that ...
VICTOR KOO

If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
VICTOR KOO

If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
VICTOR KOO

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
VICTOR KOO

While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
VICTOR KOO

Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and mark...
VICTOR KOO

At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is th...
VICTOR KOO

In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agen...
VICTOR KOO

In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking f...
VICTOR KOO

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration...
VICTOR KOO

Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our diff...
VICTOR KOO

'YouKu' means what's best and what's cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosop...
VICTOR KOO

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around f...
VICTOR KOO

I do wish to emphasize that in light of the Alibaba deal, Youku Tudou management will remain indepen...
VICTOR KOO

Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the ...
VICTOR KOO

Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launche...
VICTOR KOO

If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
VICTOR KOO

With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the mark...
VICTOR KOO

It's very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China becau...
VICTOR KOO

On top of opportunities in further traffic growth, there are increasing opportunities to fully reali...
VICTOR KOO

Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come fr...
VICTOR KOO

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
VICTOR KIAM

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
VICTOR KIAM

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring busin...
VICTOR KIAM

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I ...
VICTOR KIAM

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reacti...
VICTOR GRIGNARD

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as ...
VICTOR GRIGNARD

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, ...
VICTOR GRIGNARD

There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which cor...
VICTOR GRIGNARD

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intellige...
VICTOR GARBER

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are v...
VICTOR GARBER

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it wh...
VICTOR GARBER

The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

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