Emily Dickinson Quotes

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Development

• Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Feeling
  • Band
  • Same

• I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Playing

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Great
  • Day
  • Baseball

• The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Force
  • Labor
  • Participation

• In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Beautiful
  • Dreams
  • Green

• I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Me

• Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Home
  • Day
  • Wife

• I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Kind
  • Style
  • Feel

• I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • American
  • Kind
  • British

• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Home
  • Like
  • Place

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • City

• In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Will

• After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Political
  • Liberty
  • Crisis

• They're not injured, but they are terrified, everything is broken in the hospice.

  

  Anuradha Koirala
  • Broken
  • Terrified
  • Hospice

• A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Long
  • Character
  • Movie

• How do you feel about a person when you're talking over the phone? If you know them, or if you don't know them, do you get something, do you put that into words of your own, from what they say, or from what you think? Or if it were music over the radio, have you ever tried to think how it would look?

  

  Arthur Dove
  • Person
  • Look
  • Say

• In order to move forward, you have to look back.

  

  Matt Maher
  • Look
  • Back
  • Move

• These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Look
  • Birds