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Charles Dickens Quotes

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Charles Dickens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Topics

Man Poor Little Machine Creatures

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

Jessica Williams

Think Want Rude Heroes Apologize

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.

Challenge Wife Man I Am Christian

Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.

Man Spiritual Sun End Transition

Romney is not funny. When he tries to be, it often comes across as awkward.

Funny Awkward He Across Often Tries

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Sky Words Moon You Choice Say

I am happy most of the time.

Time I Am Happy I Am Happy Most Am

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

Marya Hornbacher

Good Father Mother Relationship Past

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

Work Compromise Values Why Next

I had a lot of friends in high school who said, 'Louie, I don't care what the government does as long as they leave me alone.' Well, guess what, when you don't care what the government does, it does not leave you alone.

Alone Government School Me Care You

With 'Scandal,' I was there from the beginning. I got to experience the transformation from its initial slow start to the water-cooler hit it became. I have thoroughly enjoyed the ride, and am deeply grateful for it. I can't believe how often people stop me on the street to talk about it.

I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.

Money Words People Believe Feel You

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Business Food Simple Grow Fighting

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