Charles Dickens Quotes

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

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• Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Always
  • Genius
  • Clouds

• I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Think
  • Need

• I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • House
  • Want
  • Learn

• The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Attention
  • Trust

• He said we were full of shit. But in a nice way.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Nice

• In a Scottish opera, it ain't over 'till the fat lady bitch-slaps you.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

  

  Dr. John
  • Life
  • Proud

• So many comics have such low self-esteem.

  

  Debra Wilson

• We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

  

  Allen David "Al" Jourgensen
  • Art
  • Support
  • Artist

• I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

  

  Claudia Black
  • Home

• Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • She
  • Trump

• It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Soul

• I never wanted anyone's pity.

  

  Jake Weber

• If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.

  

  James E. Rogers

• I don't like the word 'regret.'

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • Regret

• Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • School

• As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz

• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

  

  William Stafford
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Dance

• Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

  

  Chris Campanioni
  • Death
  • Style
  • Corpse

• There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Corpse
  • Dignified

• When you see an object, it seems that you see it as an entire thing first, and only afterwards do its details follow on. But for people with autism, the details jump straight out at us first of all, and then only gradually, detail by detail, does the whole image float up into focus.

  

  Naoki Higashida
  • Focus
  • Details
  • Objects

• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  

  William James
  • Relation
  • Concrete
  • Pragmatism

• He would make a lovely corpse.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Corpse