Emily Dickinson Quotes

Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

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• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Past

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Favourite

• You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • You
  • Personality

• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Chess

• '…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Women

• Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.

  

  Clive Barker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

  

  Charles L. Evans
  • Important

• I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • School
  • Friends

• I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • May
  • Sun
  • Author

• I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

  

  Jodhi May
  • Education
  • Passion
  • Explore

• Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.

  

  Kim Fields
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Money

• My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

  

  Jimmy Smith
  • Practice

• Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Today

• You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

  

  James Brown
  • Live
  • Yourself
  • Philosophy

• I think it’s the shock of every writer’s life when their first book is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being anonymous, a figure in ambush, working from concealment, to being and working in full public view. It had an enormous effect on me. My impression was that I had suddenly walked into a wall of heavy hostile fire.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Life
  • Book
  • Fire

• You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.

  

  Jimmie Davis
  • Knows
  • Smile
  • Sky

• You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Money
  • Sunshine
  • Find Out

• Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sunshine
  • Portraits
  • Vest