Emily Dickinson Quotes

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

Emily Dickinson

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• I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

  

  Sam Smith
  • You
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• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Work
  • May
  • Song

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
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• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • School
  • Things
  • Clothes

• I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Content

• 'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Funny

• We shared our father with the world.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Father
  • Our

• There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I'm in that day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Day
  • Mood

• My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

  

  Hamilton E. James
  • People
  • Career
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• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Think
  • Way
  • President

• Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.

  

  Laraine Day
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• Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Let's just say I like acting, but not necessarily all the stuff that comes with it.

  

  David Harewood

• The Byrds weren't rock n' roll guys. We were kinda like your Seekers... folkies who took it a step further.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • Rock

• Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • True
  • Respect

• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • School
  • She

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Love
  • Record

• PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Light
  • Poetry
  • Phosphorescence