Charles Dickens Quotes
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
Quotes to Explore
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I started out doing musicals.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.
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We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race as we have been. Because even the women at the top can do something about violence against women, right?
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Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers.
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Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
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'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
