Charles Dickens Quotes

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Powerful
  • Fight
  • Alliance

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Team
  • I Can

• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Long
  • Action

• I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Hard

• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Book
  • Sea
  • Name

• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Family
  • Depression
  • Adolescence

• I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.

  

  Benjamin Hart
  • God
  • Reasoning
  • Supreme Court's

• I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Books
  • Grateful

• We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Car

• I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather." "Yeah." "And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Together

• Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Pretend
  • Go Round