Charles Dickens Quotes

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

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• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• I don't really like to explain my songs.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Explain

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Think
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• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Every

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Idea

• With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Try
  • Ghost

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Idea
  • Wrong
  • Conversation

• I need to be able to explain myself in context.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Explain

• It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Idea
  • Getting
  • Clean

• Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Photograph

• I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Idea

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Idea
  • Web-services architecture
  • Standard protocol

• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • You
  • Government
  • Privilege

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Systems
  • Assume
  • Acceleration

• The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Understand

• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Idea
  • Explain
  • Ghost