Emily Dickinson Quotes

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith
  • Authority
  • Stands

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Military
  • Service

• I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Talk

• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Husband
  • Worried
  • Jealous

• We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Nature
  • Future

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Me
  • Difference

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Sports

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • British
  • Council

• Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

  

  Earl Blaik
  • Good

• I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Night

• With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

  

  Ernst Engel
  • Food
  • Employment
  • Incomes

• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • World
  • Real
  • Friend

• Not reforming the NHS would have been a much easier decision for me as secretary of state to have taken. We could have just protected the NHS from cuts, put in an extra £12.5bn and left it there. But sooner or later the cracks would have started to show. New treatments would have been held back.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Taken
  • Decision

• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Food