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character past men
Charles Dickens As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
character eye names
Charles Dickens If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
Charles Dickens "My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
Charles Dickens "You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Charles Caleb Colton Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.
character abuse criticism
Charles Caleb Colton When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
Charles Caleb Colton We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Charles Caleb Colton Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
years needs answers
Charles Stross Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.
years preparation left
Charles Spurgeon If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.
years oil alchemist
Alanis Morissette I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.
years white black
Alan Watts ...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.
years people car
Alan Mulally Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.
years mad people
Alan Moore I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.
years rose three
Alan Moore It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
years style looks
Alan Moore It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.
years childhood arlington
Alan Hovhaness I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
acting theatre nerves
Alan Rickman Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
acting actors doe
Al Pacino Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
acting dies
Al Pacino Either I act or I die.
acting actors crafts
Al Pacino I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
acting i-realized
Al Pacino It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
acting
Al Pacino A lot of acting is private time.
acting actors merchandise
Chow Yun-Fat An actor is only merchandise.
acting moments be-good
David Duchovny There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.
acting scar
Benedict Cumberbatch I have actual acting scars.