Charles Dickens Quotes

When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

Charles Dickens

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Hypocrisy

• You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • You
  • Someone
  • Without

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Nation
  • Calendar
  • July

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Design

• Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Country
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• I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
  • Folk

• People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Blessed
  • Been
  • Well

• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Powerful
  • Unique
  • Criticism

• Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.

  

  G_Alan_Marlatt
  • Life
  • Real
  • Way

• I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Sea
  • Tears

• Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Reality
  • Revenge

• When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sea
  • Horizon
  • Buildings