Charles Dickens Solitary Confinement Quotes & Sayings

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite
getting something down. — Julia Cameron

Be wary of sharing dreams with men,
they will rob them;
be cautious of sharing them with God,
He may grant them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is. — Nigel Barker

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. — Gordon Bethune

The sentences which Plato says were inscribed in the shrine at Delphi are singularly unlike those to be found in holy places outside of Greece. Know thyself was the first, and Nothing in excess the second, both marked by a total absence of the idiom of priestly formulas all the world over. Something new was moving in the world, the — Edith Hamilton

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color. — Harry Dean Stanton

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. — Wyclef Jean

A bus cuts the world in half... — Jodi Picoult

Living the Christian life is also challenging but for different reasons. The same desire to do well exists - to live a consistent life that honors and pleases the Lord. The big difference is that God isn't evaluating my actions and basing His love on how well I 'perform'. His love for me is unconditional. Even when I mess up He doesn't threaten to trade me off His team. — Lance Berkman

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down. — Nelson Mandela

Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck." He was speaking, communicating, and yet not breaking the spell. I then broke it. Quite deliberately. "How can it be luck if I aim?" I said back to him, not loud (despite the italics) but with rather more irritation in my voice than I was actually feeling. He didn't say anything for a moment but simply stood balanced on the curb, looking at me, I knew imperfectly, with love. "Because it will be," he said. "You'll be glad if you hit his marble - Ira's marble - won't you? Won't you be glad? And if you're glad when you hit somebody's marble, then you sort of secretly didn't expect too much to do it. So there'd have to be some luck in it, there'd have to be slightly quite a lot of accident in it. — J.D. Salinger

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that. — Dennis Quaid

I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has nothing to die for,
Then his life is worth nothing. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following. — Joe Johnston

THE RICHTER SCALE, WHICH has technically been replaced by the "moment magnitude"1 scale, measures the energy released by an earthquake. — Randall Munroe