Charles Dickens Quotes

While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Science
  • Star
  • Students

• Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Consumers

• It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • History
  • Dream
  • Always

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Heaven
  • Relationships
  • Bridges

• I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Character

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Christ
  • Within

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Quality
  • Democracy

• People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Better
  • Mental Illness

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Government
  • Prejudice

• Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • Progress

• I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That's perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn't have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • World
  • She
  • Character

• I had a list of 10 rules when we started 'Strong Island,' and one of them was, 'Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.'

  

  Yance Ford
  • Strong

• The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Sea
  • Anger
  • Needle

• While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sea
  • Great Things
  • Moonlight