You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Charles Dickens
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You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
CHARLES DICKENS Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do ...
ART MALIK I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to ...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?
JEN CAMPBELL Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good
heart is a letter of credit.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
FRANCIS BACON A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation
FRANCIS BACON SR. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
FANNY BRICE Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
ARISTOTLE Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction
ARISTOTLE I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
ELI BROAD I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Ar...
MAYA ANGELOU When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone i...
ROBIN WILLIAMS I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.
STAN LAUREL The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a ...
LUKAS FOSS Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I...
JOHN BOYNE Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fire...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't...
GERRY HARVEY You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie ...
GORDON BETHUNE I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
CLINT EASTWOOD I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
A. SCOTT BERG Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
TAYLOR HACKFORD It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
COLIN POWELL I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A...
RICH SOMMER Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.
MICHAEL RITCHIE I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big dea...
ZOE KRAVITZ I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go ba...
STUART ROSE Was it Charles Dickens who said it was the best of times and the worst of times? That's how I feel. ...
JEFF GORDON We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And ...
CHARLES DICKENS Please, sir, I want some more.
CHARLES DICKENS Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!
CHARLES DICKENS So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to ...
CHARLES DICKENS There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or m...
CHARLES DICKENS Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're go...
AUDREY HEPBURN Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don'...
HARRY S TRUMAN Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.
HERB KELLEHER Initially, the world forces you to appease it and conform. If you do so, they despise you. If you st...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don&...
JOHN IRVING You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.
LAUREN CONRAD The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don'...
JOHN WATERS Don't stop believing,
Don't be afraid of change,
Don't underestimate yourself,
Don't ...
GERMANY KENT I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly ...
LARS MIKKELSEN I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I...
ROHIT SHETTY Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
DONALD RUMSFELD There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don...
BILL KELLER You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...
JOHNNY CASH Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me ...
TRINNY WOODALL I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
JACKSON RATHBONE Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation l...
DAVID GRAVES You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you...
ROSALYNN CARTER A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'...
SOPHIA AMORUSO If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your o...
CLIFFORD STOLL He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for the...
LYDIA DAVIS They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtors' ...
CORT JENSEN They can't say you'll go to jail. Though Charles Dickens loved them, America does not have debtor's ...
CORT JENSEN Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you'...
BARTON GELLMAN I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan,...
GERMANY KENT I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adu...
VENUS WILLIAMS The ocean asks for nothing but those
who stand by her shores
gradually attune themselves to her rhyt...
CHARLES DICKENS You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Sho...
TEA LEONI I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can car...
DIABLO CODY If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab...
KELLY ROWLAND You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I d...
CAITLYN JENNER When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ...
ATO ESSANDOH My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
BILL BRYSON Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, ...
CHARLES DICKENS And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the gl...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
NARENDRA MODI The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER You're created not to conform. You're unique. Find your lane. No one is like you. Your like never ha...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular,...
ELLIOTT ERWITT My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v...
KELLY WEARSTLER We are chained, but you just don't realise it...
DEYTH BANGER At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a moth...
INDRA NOOYI I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where...
ARTHUR ASHE I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone....
MAHERSHALA ALI If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working...
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we ar...
JIM CAVIEZEL The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the bu...
JEN KIRKMAN I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commande...
ANTONY SHER Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your hou...
JERRY LEWIS If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.
ALEX CLARE Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeterie...
DONALD RUMSFELD You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'...
IAN MCKELLEN If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don&...
TYLER PERRY You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to s...
DAVID KIRK I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't...
CHARLES DICKENS Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ...
LARRY THE CABLE GUY Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a d...
JOHN GARAMENDI Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ab...
RICK PERRY I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything....
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CHARLES DICKENS Circumstances beyond my individual control.
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CHARLES DICKENS Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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CHARLES DICKENS "And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison."
CHARLES DICKENS Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answer...
CHARLES DICKENS Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...
CHARLES DICKENS God bless us, every one!
CHARLES DICKENS from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen lat...
CHARLES DICKENS A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...
CHARLES DICKENS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foo...
CHARLES DICKENS Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his ta...
CHARLES DICKENS There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less exc...
CHARLES DICKENS Some credit in being jolly.
CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ...
CHARLES DICKENS Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges i...
CHARLES DICKENS If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green,
That creepeth o'er ruins old!
Of right choice food are hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."
CHARLES DICKENS