Charles Dickens Quotes

I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

Charles Dickens

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Work
  • Live
  • Die

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Air

• Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Me
  • See
  • Australia

• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bored
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Different
  • Mood

• You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Children
  • Home
  • Lose

• Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Question
  • Without
  • Most

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• You just have to do what you know is right.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • You
  • Know
  • Right

• At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Red
  • Loving
  • Wings

• People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • People
  • Long

• I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer solves being alive.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Work
  • Art

• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Couple

• You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Happy
  • Laughing
  • Angel