Emily Dickinson Quotes

I never hear the word 'escape' Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars,- Only to fail again!

Emily Dickinson

• Attitude
• Flying
• Expectation

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• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Kind
  • Attitude
  • Enthusiasm

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dinner

• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Way
  • Poor

• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • City
  • Amazing

• You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • World
  • Team

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Violence

• As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Man
  • Fine
  • Sounds

• As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Play
  • Said
  • Rules

• Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Trust

• Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, And willow stems grow daily red and bright. These are days when ancients held a rite Of expiation for the old year's ill, And prayer to purify the new year's will.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Prayer
  • Silence
  • New Year

• Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Attitude
  • Dedication

• In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Art
  • Air
  • Stories

• To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Exercise
  • Youth

• I never hear the word 'escape' Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars,- Only to fail again!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Attitude
  • Flying
  • Expectation