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

• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Up
  • Me
  • Color

• 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

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• 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

• If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Truth
  • Design
  • Information

• Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.

  

  Victor Hugo

• 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

• Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Die

• The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Family
  • Feeling
  • King

• At medical centers such as the Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, teams of doctors and nurses provide coordinated care while working for salary instead of getting paid for every procedure.

  

  Matthew Heineman

• Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

  

  Dennis Prager

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

  

  Brian Cox
  • People
  • Life
  • Mistake

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

  

  David Copperfield