Charles Dickens Quotes

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Charles Dickens

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• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Government
  • Security
  • Laws

• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Scary
  • Because
  • Rehearsing

• Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Believe
  • Blood
  • Angels

• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Forever

• I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Winning

• I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming purview at Film Independent. I salute David Ansen for his work with the festival and look forward to continuing to follow his example.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work
  • Long
  • Independent

• I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes dreams or readings, impose themselves suddenly and demand attention.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • College

• You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Future
  • Past
  • Young

• There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Important
  • Play
  • Actor

• All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

  

  Lisa See
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Gratitude

• The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Party

• Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • America
  • Mankind

• Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Party
  • Study
  • Library

• Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Time
  • Sex
  • Drug

• Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • She
  • Character
  • Movie

• The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.

  

  William Allingham
  • Tree
  • Winter
  • Poor

• Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Luxury
  • Airports

• The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Ghost
  • Haunting
  • Malancholy