David Copperfield Quotes

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

David Copperfield

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• If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Stop
  • Perfect
  • Language

• Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • America
  • University

• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Film
  • Easy

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Rich

• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Profession
  • Fatigue
  • Reinventing

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Islamic
  • Islam
  • Physical

• Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Personality
  • Tests

• As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Money
  • Want

• My imagination is a twisted place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Imagination
  • Place
  • Twisted

• Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Want
  • Weird
  • Test

• My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Deal
  • Caucus

• I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Stronger

• My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Good
  • Long
  • English

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete

  

  Waite Phillips
  • Obstacles
  • Enthusiasm
  • Persistence

• The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• Life isn't always easy and we are never guaranteed that things will always go smoothly…It progresses with an almost constant series of challenges, but these obstacles are just detours that we have to take in order to meet our ultimate goals. No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  

  Brooke Ellison
  • Life
  • Goals
  • Challenges

• Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Up
  • Night

• Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

  

  David Copperfield
  • Obstacles