Emily Dickinson Quotes

The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day- As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.

Emily Dickinson

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Best
  • Thrive

• I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Star
  • Holiday

• Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Morning
  • Class
  • Ballet

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Never
  • Dance

• I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Home
  • Protection

• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Better

• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Doing
  • Worst
  • Duty

• Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Moment
  • Unhappy
  • Waste

• A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Career

• The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Good
  • Man
  • Me

• The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Dating
  • Attraction
  • Tension

• Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Reality

• The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Poet

• Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

  

  David Biespiel
  • Poetry
  • Relation
  • Beings

• I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals. I'm like incense. I'm a background thing for you when you do your thing with your lady. I'm a friend, only assisting you in your lurve machinations. So have no fear of me, people.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • People
  • Fear
  • Friend

• The face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day- As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.

  

  Emily Dickinson