Related Quotes
stars axes
What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis! Charlie Chaplin
stars chaos planets
Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars! Charlie Chaplin
stars heart tree
I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic. Charles de Lint
stars letters alphabet
His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered. Charles Dickens
stars men would-be
I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude. Charles Dickens
stars light darkness
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light. Charles Caleb Colton
stars moving night
And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life. Charles Dickens
stars great-expectations property
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property. Charles Dickens
stars eye moon
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead. Charles Dickens
giving missing way
There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me. Charles Taylor
giving important different
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen. Charles de Lint
giving tea cups
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. Charles Dickens
giving joy cry
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy. Charles Dickens
giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold. Charles Caleb Colton
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent. Charles Caleb Colton
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. Charles Caleb Colton
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead Charles Dickens
too-much fables labels
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables Charles Spurgeon
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed. Djuna Barnes
too-much pebbles diamond
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. Bryce Courtenay
too-much week working-it
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
too-much taste littles
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much. William Shakespeare
too-much bears would-be
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. Bill Russell
too-much gin drank
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin. Edward Gorey
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. David Hockney
too-much young knows
I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death. Benazir Bhutto