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jobs character air
Charles Dickens "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
Charles Stross I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead!
jobs reading writing
Charles Stross What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
Alan Watts It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Alan Parker Film-making is a physically hard job.
jobs asking way
Alan Patricof I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.
jobs two together
Alan Rickman One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
jobs home feet
Alan Rickman I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
funny money humorous
Charles Dickens We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.
fun heart young
Charles Dickens To a young heart everything is fun.
funny humorous men
Charles Dickens Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
funny children flower
Charles Dickens It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
funny humorous mind
Charles Dickens I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
funny morning self
Charles Dickens All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
funny death witty
Charles Dickens He would make a lovely corpse.
funny kings humorous
Charles Dickens It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
funny people literature
Charles Dickens Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
world surprise enough
Charles Dickens I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
world affection should
Charles Dickens Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
world lines facts
Charles Spurgeon Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
world crosses remedy
Charles Spurgeon The world's one and only remedy is the cross.
world causes christ
Charles Spurgeon Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.
world looks christ
Charles Spurgeon There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.
world whole
Alan Watts The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
world victim define-yourself
Alan Watts Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
world forget
Alan Watts In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.