Emily Dickinson Quotes

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

Emily Dickinson

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• Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Creative
  • Pregnancy

• Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Doors
  • Lines
  • Consequences

• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • American
  • Body
  • New York

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Book
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Rights
  • TV
  • Formula One

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • She
  • Woman
  • Admire

• Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Slavery
  • United States
  • Cuba

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• Walk a mile in these Louboutins,But they don't wear these shits where I'm from.I'm not hating, I'm just telling you.I'm tryna let you know what the fuck that I've been through.

  

  Iggy Azalea

• From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Work
  • Discipline

• When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • World
  • Whole
  • Whole World

• I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Stupid
  • Regret
  • Sense

• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Tears
  • Flowers

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Regret
  • Flowers
  • Bee