Charles Dickens Quotes

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

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• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Family
  • Job

• I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • History
  • Painting

• I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Trying
  • Negative
  • Parenting

• We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • See
  • Place
  • Take

• Paris ain't much of a town.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Paris
  • Much
  • Town

• When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • House
  • Song

• I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Sky
  • Mark
  • Missed

• I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Art
  • House
  • Small

• I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Team
  • Always
  • Movies

• We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Will
  • Taxes

• Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Violence
  • Secret
  • Dirty

• When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Start

• John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Win

• Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Person

• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Beginning

• I do love my work, but Daddy likes a little break, too.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Work
  • Love
  • Break

• It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.

  

  Ed Askew
  • New York
  • Illusion
  • Drive

• I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Earth
  • Drive
  • iPad

• While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Long
  • Trust
  • Security

• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • History
  • Nature
  • Spirit

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Drive
  • Tomb