David Copperfield Quotes
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
David Copperfield
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift
I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
Nargis Fakhri
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
J. C. Watts
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
Malik Jackson
My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
Yair Lapid
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
Sally Field
To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Before I even wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a figure skater.
Allison Janney
It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.
Dennis Quaid
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
Bertrand Russell
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
David Copperfield