Charles Dickens Quotes

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Charles Dickens

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• But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Peace
  • Media
  • Bring

• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Alone
  • Determination
  • Socialism

• I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Love
  • Stand
  • Lighting

• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Singing
  • Waiting
  • Wind

• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Question
  • Old
  • Youth

• Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Respect
  • Alone
  • Bring

• There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Woman
  • Perspective
  • Bring

• Prizefighting is short. Get in. Get rich. Get out. But martial arts is for life. It's for life.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Life

• I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Home
  • Father
  • Thankful

• If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

  

  David O. Selznick

• We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show 'Top Gear.'

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Great

• The artist doesn't really think about consequences - he or she does the work, stands back and looks at and thinks, 'Hmm, that could have worked better like this.' But as a person who needs to sell tickets to do the next work, one needs to analyze how it does or does not hit its mark.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Work
  • She

• Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

  

  Brian McBride
  • Work

• If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Children
  • Family

• We don't want to watch boring characters.

  

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

• I am the great terror of the squires, they seem to be seized with a sort of bucolic mania in dealing with me.

  

  John Bright
  • Great

• A finite interval of time generally contains an innumerable series of feelings; and when these become welded together in association the result is a general idea.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Time
  • Together

• Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Day
  • Joy

• You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.

  

  Will Self
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Feelings

• I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Anonymity

• For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Identity
  • Contact

• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  

  Charles Dickens
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  • Lighting
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