Emily Bronte Quotes

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Emily Bronte

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• Fluttering

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• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • You
  • Now
  • London

• I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Path

• Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Art
  • She

• Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Pain

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Romantic

• I moved to Dallas, and I started making music.

  

  Post Malone
  • Music

• For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

  

  John le Carre
  • Political

• Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Thursday

• Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Power
  • Broken
  • Pieces

• In Arthurian battle the trick for us was to figure out how to give it the scale that the movie deserved and fitted in a financial box that was necessary. We made the battle quite a bit bigger than originally intended, just because we felt that being part of the opening sequence of the movie we really needed to grab the audience's attention.

  

  Ian Bryce
  • Movie
  • Attention
  • Financial

• Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Night
  • Girl

• You want to attach emotionally.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Want

• Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

  

  E. V. Knox
  • Golf
  • Numbers
  • Shapes

• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Imagine
  • Sleepers
  • Slumbers

• What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Human being
  • Breathing
  • Been In Love

• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing it's based on is whether it's good or not. No book editor, in my experience, is getting a manuscript and trying to rewrite it.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Strange
  • Mathematics
  • Mental

• I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Breathing
  • Sleepers
  • Fluttering