Emily Dickinson Quotes

Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie, The Day that a companion came- Or was obliged to die.

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Me
  • Cooking
  • Patience

• I would like my kids to study well.

  

  Vijay
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Study

• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Walking

• It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Science
  • Human
  • Situation

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Choose
  • Public

• It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

  

  Vash Young
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Better

• My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Car

• I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Good
  • Book
  • Friends

• Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Time
  • War
  • Suffering

• Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• To act is to rest.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Rest

• I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Think
  • Need

• Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie, The Day that a companion came- Or was obliged to die.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Die
  • Rest