Charles Dickens Quotes

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

Charles Dickens

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• My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Best
  • Hair
  • Color

• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Drink
  • Smoke
  • Stayed

• The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Color

• I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Color
  • Hell

• I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Light
  • Things
  • Color

• I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Color
  • Doing
  • Same

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

  

  Candice Olson
  • House
  • Black
  • Color

• I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Smoke

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Me
  • Never

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Color
  • Genius
  • Rainbow

• Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Color
  • Say
  • Yellow

• I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Light
  • Color

• Well, when I'm in a bar drinking I really have to have a smoke or two....

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Drinking
  • Two
  • Smoke

• I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Art
  • Uncomfortable

• I hold an office in trust, not a title. I don't want to say it's a kamikaze approach to life, but it's ingrained.

  

  Bob Latta
  • Life
  • Trust

• I've got a clear line between work and real life.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time

• It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Color
  • Smoke
  • Fuel