Emily Dickinson Quotes

... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

Emily Dickinson

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• Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Live
  • Space
  • Saying

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Water
  • Woman

• I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Speak
  • Lord

• The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Words
  • Space

• I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Flight
  • Floating

• I find I'm an old soul.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Soul
  • Find
  • Old

• It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • War
  • Peace
  • Lead

• Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Small
  • Space

• I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

  

  Usher
  • America
  • Culture
  • Dark

• Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Psychology

• You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Good
  • Space
  • inspirational

• I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Otis Redding. I think that's where I got my love for a good hook, a good soul hook - really smooth and warm and from the heart.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Space

• Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

  

  Charles Simeon
  • Soul

• When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Justice

• Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Women
  • Space

• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Competition
  • Gold
  • Sister

• Donald Trump is making decisions that affect people's day-to-day life, and he's constantly, constantly making some crazy announcement. It's like, "Well, what are we supposed to talk about? The D train? Traffic?" Trump is the one guy that's like, "Yeah, I'll do 90 minutes of live comedy. Seems easy enough."

  

  Michael Che
  • Comedy
  • Crazy
  • Decision

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Actor
  • Don't Worry

• ... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Soul
  • Space
  • Lead