Charles Dickens Quotes
She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.Charles Dickens
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
Hansie Cronje -
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor Swift -
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong -
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
Frances Mayes -
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
Gavrilo Princip -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
Carlos Fuentes -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
Kate Forsyth -
I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
Mandy Patinkin -
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
Dan Pink
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls -
One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
Viggo Mortensen -
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
Felix Frankfurter -
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson -
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Pat Riley -
I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
Nadine Velazquez
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Writers are so important.
Adam Driver -
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal - a face that might have been chiseled by a sculptor who had fallen out of love with the idea of beauty.
Brian Morton -
She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.
Charles Dickens