Emily Dickinson Quotes
The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Content with complete verses, I sleep, while others strain for simple rhymes.
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Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -
