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 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 nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.
MICHAEL RITCHIE 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 Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do ...
ART MALIK 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 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 The ocean asks for nothing but those
who stand by her shores
gradually attune themselves to her rhyt...
CHARLES DICKENS 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 Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I...
JOHN BOYNE He even played for them. I was interested in him from when I was young so it was very exciting. Char...
ALEXEI SMERTIN Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Ar...
MAYA ANGELOU She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
CHARLES DICKENS But what were even gold and silver, precious stones and clockwork, to the bookshops, whence a pleasa...
CHARLES DICKENS Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
CHARLES DICKENS I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
DAVID MARKSON I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
CHARLES DICKENS Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY O yes youwl want to think on that you dont want your mouf to walk you where your feet dont want to g...
RUSSELL HOBAN Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
LES BROWN people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how ev...
DANIEL RAEBURN Hey, Meg," she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm app...
KRISTIN HANNAH Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
GEORGE HERBERT When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ...
SEX AND THE CITY (from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens)
In the ...
NICK HORNBY if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC (On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has i...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as...
HENRY FIELDING Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b...
G.K. CHESTERTON How can someone ask you to show your full potential when their actions bring out the worst in you.Fo...
TANICA S HALL When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because ...
MATTHEW PEARL I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
MICHAEL PARENTI It is a sin against hospitality, to open your doors and darken your countenance
PROVERB Even though Peter may not be here, we have a very strong consultant and construction company to get ...
RICHARD APPELL when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD What you carry is a reflection of your personality.
PATRICK COOPER If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in...
MOTHER TERESA Whats the point of changing everything about your lover? you dont love them entirely for who they ar...
AMIR RIVEROLL You can write your spouse a letter saying those things.
KATHLEEN MURRAY The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, C...
MARTIN SCORSESE Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about...
JOSH LANYON Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.'...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON Dont let the love control your heart without letting your brain get in the middle or you will lose m...
SAD LOVE ANGEL You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese aliv...
ATSUKO ABE I've talked to students from Ivy League colleges who don't know their professors well enough to ask ...
ROBERT KENNEDY You carry with you a solution vending machine in your head. Don't waste it
SOTONYE ANGA You guys have done it. We're ready to present this zoning ordinance and zoning map for your recommen...
KAY ROBERTSON If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.
AMIT RAY Dont follow your gut; usually it's full of crap.
SEAN MAURICE HUNT You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.
ROY THOMSON The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM The weight of the boat was probably altered, ... In Michigan, the Coast Guard inspects these vessels...
BILL HART You're beautifulIt's trueI saw your face In a crowded placeand I dont know what to docause I will ne...
JAMES BLUNT If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sigh...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN The heavier weight you carry on your shoulder, the higher risk of a shorter walk in life.
NISHAL MAHARAJ Some people aren't meant to stay in your life. But, that doesn't mean you can't carry a piece of the...
JILL SHALVIS do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language
JUDD NELSON If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
CARLOS SANTANA If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment
NEALE DONALD WALSCH Dont put yourself and your happiness in a bubble and block the rest of the world out.cause when that...
KIMBERLY SHILENJE Every time you say you dont believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
PETER PAN I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can...
FRANK BLACK Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder whil...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 You have your season, and you have but your seaso...
JOHN OWEN Dont keep your heart safe.. be vulnerable
JOHN MAYER But it's a child! You're a man!"
"Your powers of observation are formidable...
KATHERINE RUNDELL I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and exten...
LINUS PAULING you know people seriously only deciding according to their needs and remember they dont a fuck to yo...
FAAMIN For these two years I have been gravitating towards THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER You carry every relationship in your head and heart. Your friends carry every relationship in their ...
ANIL GUPTA set your goals in life because if u dont then it seems like a wild goose chase..
RAHUL.V.BHOLE Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it is something you carry in you heart.
UNKNOWN Darling,
You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Your thoughts carry you wherever you want to go. Weak thoughts don’t have the energy to carry you ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Live as extravagant as your beliefs can carry you,provided you don't become a victim of bankrupcy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You have continual suspense, unfolding letter by letter. You have all these ups and downs in your ch...
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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