Emily Dickinson Quotes

I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

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• Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Always
  • My Life

• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  

  Sampha
  • World
  • School
  • Cool

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Right
  • New
  • Now

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Business
  • Today
  • Reality

• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Unpredictable

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• Love is the HeavenToward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures - you and IAre rushing by the straight path of action right,Or winding laboriously on error’s path,All to reach haven there at last.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Action
  • Path

• Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Great
  • Small

• The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sky

• I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Band

• So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Done
  • Past

• I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

  

  Mata Hari
  • Home
  • Content
  • Butterfly

• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Home
  • Parent
  • Sibling

• My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Born
  • Name
  • Fathers

• I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

  

  Emily Dickinson
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