Charles Dickens Quotes

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

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• I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Other

• I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Years
  • Texas

• Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Amazing
  • Fans
  • Cynical

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Know
  • Question

• I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Day
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Work
  • Fun

• It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Mind
  • Impossible
  • Rejection

• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Long
  • Passion

• I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.

  

  Cam
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

  

  Larry Poons
  • People
  • Painting
  • Color

• I used to wish that I could write songs, like the others-and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune the others always say it sounds like such-a-thing, and when they point it out, I see what they mean.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Words
  • Wish

• Happy is he that grows wise by other men's harms.

  

  James Howell
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Wise

• My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Music
  • God
  • Believe

• We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • History
  • Learn
  • Rabbit

• A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Practice
  • Couple
  • Hours

• Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Children
  • Society
  • Enemy

• I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• War is not a thing one wants.

  

  Hans Frank
  • War
  • Thing
  • Wants

• I have always been an avid bike rider. Even before I became an avid bike rider, I was an avid bike stealer when I was a kid. I am very educated on bikes.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Kids
  • Bike
  • Educated

• Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Public
  • Latin
  • Understood

• I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Fit
  • Educated
  • Phrase