Charles Dickens Quotes

There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

Charles Dickens

• Ghost Stories
• Chestnuts
• Christmas Fire

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Life
  • Men
  • Career

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • You
  • Mean
  • Door

• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Laugh

• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Family

• I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Me
  • Decisions

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Joy

• They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Heart
  • Moving

• He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs to one another.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Character
  • Friends

• If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

  

  James A. Michener

• It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Awesome

• People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

  

  Bill Irwin
  • People
  • Done

• I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Learning
  • Style
  • Confidence

• I like to go to bed early.

  

  Jenna Bush

• I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Friend
  • Couple
  • Practice

• Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • People

• Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Intention
  • Oppression

• A thought is a hard thing to control.

  

  Susanna Kaysen
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Hard

• There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Book
  • Human Society
  • Ghost Stories

• How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Human
  • Supposed
  • Make Sense

• There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Ghost Stories
  • Chestnuts
  • Christmas Fire