Charles Dickens Quotes

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

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• There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Money
  • Leaving
  • Guys

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Now
  • Inspire

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Always
  • Eat
  • Watching

• I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Passion
  • English
  • Literature

• I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • School

• My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Myself

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Cold
  • Doing

• We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Same

• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Best
  • Advice

• So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
  • Events
  • Meet

• Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Health
  • Look
  • Elegance

• 'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • People
  • Power

• Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Great

• When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Live
  • Feeling

• In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • World
  • Party

• To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

  

  Charles Dickens
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