Emily Dickinson Quotes

The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Thinking
  • Woman
  • Design

• I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Happy
  • Mistake
  • Amendment

• I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • She
  • Fun

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Human
  • Better
  • Need

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • People
  • Country
  • Money

• The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Silly
  • Ruling
  • Paula

• When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Humor
  • Admire

• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • English
  • Almost
  • Accent

• I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Nature
  • College
  • Thought

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Country
  • Ambition

• Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

  

  Alain Badiou
  • Truth

• I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Culture
  • Sad

• The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Fire

• I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

  

  Phil Hartman

• The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Pleasure
  • First