Charles Dickens Quotes
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.Charles Dickens
Quotes to Explore
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian McShane -
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
Sam Heughan
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Walter Cronkite -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
Ian Rush -
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
F. Sionil Jose -
None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
Wanda Jackson
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
M. J. Rose -
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
Madhuri Dixit -
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
Natascha McElhone -
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
Quentin Tarantino -
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
Patton Oswalt -
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.
Jason Blum -
You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
Lance Henriksen -
Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.
Charles Dickens