Charles Dickens Quotes

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Charles Dickens

• Loose
• Trousers
• Excellent Man

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• What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Death
  • Sex

• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Courage

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • None

• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Single

• You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Children
  • Car
  • Drawing

• I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.Laughter is best;Sing through the night of it.Swiftly the tearAnd the hurt and the ache of itFind us down here;Life must be what we make of it.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • Night
  • Hurt

• That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Church

• I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

  

  James Polshek
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Architecture

• Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Unique

• I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Life
  • Business

• I had always known that I couldn't play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Up
  • God
  • Taken

• I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

  

  David Ortiz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

  

  Kit Bond
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• My eyeliner is this Kat Von D Tattoo Liner... I've tried every single eyeliner, and this is the best. I use it in Mad Max Brown.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Single
  • Mad
  • Tattoo

• Like my makeup, I keep my hair simple. It's either down or in a ponytail.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Simple
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Related
  • Loose

• I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Trying
  • Privacy
  • Limitation

• The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • Country
  • Education
  • Justice

• It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don't really change. You're ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Money

• This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

  

  Alan AtKisson
  • World
  • Change
  • Optimism

• A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Loose
  • Trousers
  • Excellent Man