Emily Dickinson Quotes

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Emily Dickinson

• God
• Song
• Faith
• Bird

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• Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • God
  • Done
  • Thank God

• We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Song
  • Girl

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Family
  • Game
  • Career

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Job
  • Best
  • Professional

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Song
  • You
  • Band

• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Being
  • Opposite

• I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • God
  • Game
  • Tough

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Pet
  • Cats

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Water

• One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • City
  • Growth

• Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may never work reliably or generate enough energy to be commercially viable.

  

  Charles Platt
  • Work
  • May
  • Energy

• All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • World
  • Things

• When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

  

  Jesse Harris
  • Life
  • Hand

• Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Song
  • Faith