Charles Dickens Quotes

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

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• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Prospect
  • Visual

• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Live
  • Down

• Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Business
  • Law

• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Bad
  • Fall
  • Wonderful

• Home is most important in the long run.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Important
  • Long
  • Home

• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Race
  • Nation
  • Class

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Know
  • Boundaries

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Love
  • Way
  • Weird

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Short

• No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Alone
  • Woman

• All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Day
  • Weapons
  • One Day

• If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • You
  • Try

• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Environment
  • Travel

• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  

  Pericles
  • May
  • True
  • Age

• Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Support
  • Wonder
  • Forgotten