Charles Dickens Quotes

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Time
  • Long
  • Know

• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.

  

  Kym Whitley
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Career

• Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

  

  John Dryden

• You won't see us at one of these for many, many years. We won't see you for a long time. I mean it. It's going to be years before we have the chance to say this again.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
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  • Years

• There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Way

• I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Person
  • Long Time

• Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Pickup
  • Believers

• I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Remember
  • Long Time
  • Knocked

• When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

  

  Euripides
  • Imagine
  • Long Time
  • Folk

• When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Long Time
  • Abyss
  • Stare

• The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Nameless
  • Nourishes

• EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!

  

  Ben Weinman
  • Game
  • Doubt
  • Magic

• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  

  Max Cleland
  • Today
  • Guy
  • House

• By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Atheism
  • Guilt

• Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Long Time
  • Pickup
  • Scattered