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

• We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Up
  • Blue

• 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

• I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

  

  Courtney Love

• 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

• Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Power
  • Nature

• I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.

  

  Chanel West Coast
  • Different
  • Stupid
  • Shows

• I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Hopeless

• I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Know
  • Say
  • Kid

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

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Sunshine
  • Portraits
  • Vest