Charles Dickens Quotes

They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

Charles Dickens

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• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Insane
  • Sanity

• I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Game
  • Sports
  • Car

• I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Blessed
  • Grateful

• Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Mind
  • Nothing
  • Open

• People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.

  

  Irving Babbitt

• An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Son

• I don't know any elected Democrats that I get along with.

  

  Darryl Glenn

• FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Interesting
  • Focus
  • Tired

• In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

  

  Kathleen Wynne
  • Long

• Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stop

• I've worked with horses since I was a little kid.

  

  Brady Jandreau

• Cooking is my love language, where there's the most amount of giving selflessly. … It's more about the health benefits than the ethics. But it's compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Giving
  • Health
  • Cooking

• The pedicure is beside the point - the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.

  

  Amy Landecker

• I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Power
  • Man
  • Messing

• Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Tea
  • Enjoyment
  • Distraction

• A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Feathers
  • Peacock

• Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Good
  • Wings

• They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Loose
  • Screaming
  • Feathers