Emily Dickinson Quotes

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Emily Dickinson

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Popular

• I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Myself

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Cool
  • Promise
  • Driving

• The cast of 'The Big C' is such an amazing group of people. They're so joyful and just open their arms to you as an actor.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • People
  • Amazing

• As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

  

  Joe Montana
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Live
  • Women
  • Hate

• Most importantly, I want my kids to be happy. You're only as happy as your saddest kid.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • World

• Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.

  

  Francois Nars
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• I was talking to different labels: Columbia, RCA , Epic. I decided not to sign with Epic even after L.A. Reid offered me a crazy deal.

  

  Dimitri Leslie Roger
  • Different
  • Crazy

• Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

  

  Kelly McGillis
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Journey

• Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • Hand

• There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Giving

• Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

  

  Willa Cather
  • World
  • Writing
  • Office

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • She
  • Problems
  • Tea

• Every house has its own private cup of sorrow.

  

  Phyllis Theroux
  • House
  • Sorrow
  • Cup

• Bring me the sunset in a cup.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sunset
  • Cup
  • Bring Me