Emily Dickinson Quotes

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson

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• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Way
  • Europe
  • June

• When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Trust
  • Public
  • Restore

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Need
  • Public
  • Still

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
  • Expansion

• We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Public
  • Count

• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Things
  • Public
  • Radio

• I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Public
  • Vice
  • Amusements

• It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

  

  Banks
  • Beautiful
  • Hard
  • Public

• There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Responsibility
  • Public
  • Must

• Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Things
  • Public
  • Courses

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• Attributed in the 'quote of the day' source code of the 'Fortune' computer program (June 1987); more at 'The Most Exciting Phrase in Science Is Not ‘Eureka!’ But ‘That’s funny …’' at Quote Investigator

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • June

• For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I've felt there's no communication or not enough communication between the public and the school board. It would be my goal to help to facilitate some communication.

  

  Larry Cohen
  • Communication
  • Public
  • School board

• Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Growing Up
  • Public
  • Test

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Together
  • Positive
  • Vote

• I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Public
  • June
  • Frog