Charles Dickens Quotes
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
Barry Marshall -
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
M.I.A. -
I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
Nancy Gibbs -
'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
Zoe Tapper -
I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.
Magic Johnson
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
Imelda Staunton -
The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
Faye Wattleton -
Today you have this horrible alliance between the far left and the Islamists and they’re using the modern media tool to shut people like me out by smearing us.'
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
Lev Vygotsky -
If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.
Luke Grimes -
You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
Bob Ross
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The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.
Jeff Cohen -
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal -
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
Audrey Hepburn -
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
William Shakespeare -
Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.
Emily Bronte -
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
William S. Burroughs
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I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
Heather Burns -
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
Charles Dickens