Emily Dickinson Quotes

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Emily Dickinson

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• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

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• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

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• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

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• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

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• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

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  Landon Donovan
  • Think
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• Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

  

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• Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.

  

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• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

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  • Simple

• Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

  

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  • Wish
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• The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • People
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• I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.

  

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• I grew up watching movies and being amazed at the animatronics you'd see in stuff like 'The Dark Crystal,' and all those kinds of movies. So, I'm always enthralled with how they can make it all work, behind the scenes, with the visual effects.

  

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• Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.

  

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• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

  

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• When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

  

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  • Baseball
  • Mad
  • Break

• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Victory
  • Break
  • Purple