Emily Dickinson Quotes

I must go in, the fog is rising.

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• Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Process

• When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Success
  • Failure

• Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Wish

• Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

  

  Plato
  • Speak
  • Mischief

• ... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Marriage
  • Bird
  • Mates

• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Pride
  • Results
  • Achieved

• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Earth
  • Circle
  • Heavens

• I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Comedies
  • Script

• My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Life
  • Animal
  • Gift

• The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

  

  Evo Morales
  • War
  • Earth
  • Environment

• The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Ideas
  • Secret
  • Worries

• If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Moving
  • Revolution
  • Rising

• The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

  

  Catherine Booth
  • Water
  • Christianity
  • Rising

• Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • High

• I must go in, the fog is rising.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Rising
  • Fog