Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

Charles Dickens

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

Charles Dickens

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

Charles Dickens

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Joel Kinnaman

We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.

Christopher McQuarrie

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

Carly Schroeder

I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

Robin Tunney

Everything you read now is like a remake of a movie you've already seen. With independent film, things are more character-driven.

Kurt Russell

I'm not much on sequels; I'm not much on remakes for the most part. I don't really like or dislike them.

Kool Keith

Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

William Butler Yeats

Myself I must remake.

Robert Browning

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Charlie Cox

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

Bill Bixby

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Gene Luen Yang

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman—who is only a mere superhero.

Donald Glover

When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.

Clark Gregg

All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.

Dan Quayle

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

David Lyons

The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

Corey Taylor

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

Casey Stengel

It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

Astrid Lindgren

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

Cheryl Strayed

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.