Charles Dickens Quotes
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.Charles Dickens
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
Sam Smith -
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
Dan Fouts -
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
Zadie Smith -
I was an English major in college!
Maggie Siff -
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton -
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Hale Irwin
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
D. B. Sweeney -
I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
Magic Johnson -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
Jacki Weaver -
The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
Gary Calamar -
Fashion anticipates.
Oleg Cassini
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb -
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Jackie Collins -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
F. L. Lucas -
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn -
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
Isaac Asimov -
We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
A. Theodore Tuttle -
The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now wore a smile; and sparkling sunbeams dancing on chamber windows, and twinkling through blind and curtain before sleepers’ eyes, shed light even into dreams, and chased away the shadows of the night.
Charles Dickens