Emily Dickinson Quotes

The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -

Emily Dickinson

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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.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Fake
  • Talking

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Pay
  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• 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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• '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!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Film

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• 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.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

  

  Eric Walters
  • Up

• A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing … You come to a point where you have sung, more or less … your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. You know, up until that point, I hadn't had a life. I'd been searching, been on the road.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • American
  • Society

• One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

  

  Knute Rockne
  • Good
  • Soul

• The Soul selects her own Society - Then - shuts the Door - To her divine Majority - Present no more -

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Soul
  • Society
  • Present