Charles Dickens Quotes

Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

Charles Dickens

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• The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Done
  • Something
  • Respond

• So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • History
  • Die
  • Prove

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Member

• There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Words
  • Feelings
  • Describe

• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Way
  • Jesus

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Always
  • Singing
  • Kid

• We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Best
  • Choice
  • Be Prepared

• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mind
  • You
  • Imagination

• Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Like
  • Genius

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Wisdom

• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• 'My grandfather always says that's what books are for,' Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. 'To travel without moving an inch.'

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Travel

• What is the American fetish about highways? They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers. Because something is after them, Black Herman adds. But what is after them? They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • American
  • Destiny
  • They

• The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• But if we don’t figure out the way the world works and is, and if we don’t live in harmony with it, we will be miserable and no better off than the dumb animals.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Animals
  • Harmony

• We all look in the mirror and name the things that we don't like about ourselves or wish we could change. Instead, name the good things and focus on that!

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Focus

• Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Mirror
  • Shadow
  • Chair