Emily Bronte Quotes

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

Emily Bronte

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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Audience

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan

• Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Government
  • Health emergencies

• For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don't know why they picked me. That's what I've always done.

  

  Alan Jackson
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Doubt

• I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • World
  • Tears
  • Escape