Charles Dickens Quotes
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Quotes to Explore
-
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
-
Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
-
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
-
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
-
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
-
I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
-
The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
-
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
-
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
-
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
-
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
-
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
-
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
-
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
-
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
-
I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
-
I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
-
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
-
My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
-
We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
-
In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.
-
I'm very excited to have a girl.
-
There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.
-
They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
