Charles Dickens Quotes
Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
-
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
-
What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
-
Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
-
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
-
I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
-
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
-
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
-
I can only control what I can control.
-
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
-
The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
-
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
-
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
-
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
-
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
-
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
-
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
-
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
-
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
-
In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
-
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
-
I've got to put on some more points and more yardage
-
Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
-
Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!
