David Copperfield Quotes

'The labour is so pleasant,'said Agnes,'that it is scarcely grateful in me to call it by that name.'

David Copperfield

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Eyes

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Past
  • Moving
  • Hurt

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Money
  • Rich

• I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Live
  • Teen
  • Mentoring

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Work
  • Career
  • Joy

• The building’s beauty is a metaphor for hers Mumtaz Mahal and is thus contemplated as feminine. It is builder's feeling for the woman interred within. What else but passion, they ask, could have inspired something so perfect?

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Feeling
  • Perfect
  • Passion

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up
  • Long
  • King

• Hey Uncle SamPut your name at the top of his listAnd the Statue of LibertyStarted shaking her fist.And the eagle will flyMan, it's gonna be hellWhen you hear Mother FreedomStart ringing her bellAnd it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on youBrought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.

  

  Toby Keith
  • World
  • Mother
  • Red

• Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez.

  

  Anatole France

• I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

  

  James Wolk
  • Work

• Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Up
  • Worry
  • Stock

• I needed to get it out. It was that tipping point where you either become a serial killer or a rock star.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Rock Star
  • Killer

• I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Friends
  • Football
  • Pressure

• Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Parents
  • Technology
  • Mom

• Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

  

  Petra Kelly
  • Peace
  • Destruction
  • Potential

• Life in the London suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Liberty
  • Conscious
  • London

• 'The labour is so pleasant,'said Agnes,'that it is scarcely grateful in me to call it by that name.'

  

  David Copperfield