Emily Dickinson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
-
I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
-
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
-
It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
-
I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
-
Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
-
Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
-
I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
-
I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
-
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
-
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
-
I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
-
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
-
Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
-
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
-
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
-
Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
-
I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
-
When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.
-
Music is a vehicle that propels me and so many other people toward a place we might call grace.
-
I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
-
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
-
Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
