Charles Dickens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Ralph Hodgson
-
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
Parker Posey
-
I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
Nancy Marchand
-
I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
Vince McMahon
-
After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
Nadia Comaneci
-
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
Iris DeMent
-
I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
Linda Ronstadt
-
I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway.
Linda Ronstadt
-
Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
Neil Diamond
-
The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
Alan Alda
-
I have a certain energy on screen, and it's either needed or it's definitely not needed. I know that I can stick out like a sore thumb, and there are some women I'm not ready to play.
Angelina Jolie
-
It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
Eamon Quotes
-
I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.
T. C. Boyle
-
What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an axe.
W. C. Fields
-
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
E. O. Wilson
-
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
-
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!
Andrew Murray
-
I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.
W. C. Fields