Charles Dickens Quotes

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

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• We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Myself

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Thought

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• The Protestant theologian replaced the church’s feudal cosmology with a worldview centered on the personal relationship of each believer with Christ. The democratization of worship fit well with the new communication/energy matrix that was empowering the new burgher class.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • Energy
  • Relationship
  • Church

• I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

  

  Stephen A. Schwarzman
  • People
  • World
  • Company

• I always have apples and fruit in the house. It's easier to eat something healthy if it's within reach. I also have yogurt, cheese and crackers, and raw almonds.

  

  Martina McBride
  • House

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Success
  • Couple
  • Door

• What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Paris
  • Impression