Emily Bronte Quotes

Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.

Emily Bronte

• Intensity
• Sentence
• Disguise
• Gaze

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• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Kind
  • Chinese
  • Pressure

• I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

  

  Rami Malek
  • Technology
  • Dark
  • Debt

• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Despair
  • Salvation

• There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Audience
  • Win
  • Where

• I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not really mine any more.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Song

• I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Why

• I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.

  

  Elliott Smith
  • Experience

• That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Live
  • May

• I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Bliss

• The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

  

  Earl Blaik
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Soul

• Hello! I'm Elijah Wood, and i'm a looser!

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Hello
  • Looser
  • Elijah Wood

• I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Work
  • Want
  • Conversation

• Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Honor

• People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.

  

  Chris Smith
  • People
  • Taken
  • Peoples

• Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Children
  • Book
  • Girl

• Is Stephen Harper using the imagined fear of widespread security threats to score political points before the next election?

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Security
  • Election
  • Imagined

• My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Mind
  • Face
  • Intensity

• Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

  

  Edmundo Desnoes
  • Photographs
  • Gaze
  • Observed

• Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Intensity
  • Sentence
  • Disguise