Emily Dickinson Quotes
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.
Emily Dickinson
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
Imtiaz Ali
I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
Patrick Wilson
Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
Hannibal Buress
I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
Victoria Justice
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
I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
Val McDermid
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Calvin Coolidge
I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
Imelda Staunton
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
Sam Rockwell
I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.
W. H. Auden
The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
Maria Bamford
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
Pierre de Coubertin
If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.
Abraham Lincoln
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
Anne Carson
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.
Emily Dickinson
