Charles Dickens Quotes

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.

Charles Dickens

Quotes to Explore

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

Naguib Mahfouz
- Style
- Forget
- Heritage
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

Walter Lang
- People
- Money
- Earth
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Randall Jarrell
- Know
- Intelligent
- Say
Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

Talib Kweli Black Star
- Art
- Job
- History
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

Olivier Martinez
- Sometimes
- Care
- Laugh
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

Sam Graves
- Business
- Face
- Status Quo