Chuzzlewit Martin Quotes & Sayings

I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way. — Stephen Fry

Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind. — Conor Cruise O'Brien

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. — Alison Bechdel

Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books. — Alfred Bester

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act. — Sophocles

Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet ... There's plenty out there. — Nick Hornby

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. — Alberto Manguel

They're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. — Charles Dickens

My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas. — Adrian Tomine

Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most. — Peter Hargreaves

The secret of freedom, courage ... — Thucydides

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. — E. O. Wilson

Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create. — Richard Branson

I do not want these women-centric films, or ... what's that term? ... mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them. — Kajol

The brain is a furnace./
Is transformed and transforms. — Stan Rice