Charles Dickens Quotes

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Charles Dickens

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• Listener

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• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Try
  • Aim
  • Jerusalem

• I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Flying
  • Mars

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

• I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Crazy
  • Flying
  • Week

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Motivational
  • Aim
  • Mark

• The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Wife

• If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • You
  • Aim

• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Aim
  • Brevity
  • Jargon

• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Long
  • Man
  • Mistake

• Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Someone
  • Aim

• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hate

• I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Love
  • Flying
  • Pants

• I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Flying
  • Wheel
  • Forehead

• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Flying
  • Direction

• Alas, despite wing implants, feathers and wax, and carnal associations with swans, we will never grow wings. Alas, any true flight we make will always be externally assisted. Alas, the best we can do is fall and believe ourselves flying.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Believe
  • True
  • Fall

• How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

  

  Rumi
  • Flying
  • Perfection
  • Difficulties

• In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World

• I appreciate what others have done in the past especially for my genre, and my style of singing. And they sure put a footprint - you know, they got the foot in the door, but I'm going to put my foot straight through the door.

  

  James Durbin Quiet Riot
  • Done
  • Past
  • Style

• I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Friends
  • Exciting
  • Watches

• The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Flying
  • Aim
  • Listener