Emily Dickinson Quotes

Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

Emily Dickinson

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• Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Late
  • Fast

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Death
  • Saying

• Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonna's eyebrows. I think it's beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Couple

• My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hope
  • Name
  • Middle

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Work
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • People
  • Today
  • Dreams

• Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Power
  • Powerful

• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • God
  • Lost

• I'm the eldest of four children: a brother next after me and then two sisters.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Children
  • Brother

• Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • Good

• It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

  

  Dizzy Gillespie
  • Life
  • Taken

• The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Prove
  • Hype

• I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I don't know anything about chemistry, but I know that there's a whole world of chemistry, of professional chemists. They have their prizes, they have their publications, they have their work. Just because I don't know about it, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. A lot of people say, "Isn't poetry in trouble today?" Or: "Nobody really reads poetry anymore." And I say, "You're crazy." There's a huge world of poetry out there. You may not know about it, but it's there.

  

  Barbara Hamby
  • Trouble
  • Chemistry
  • Prizes

• Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.

  

  Willie Jolley
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Development

• Prosperity Whose sources are interior. As soon Adversity A diamond overtake.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity
  • Diamond