Emily Dickinson Quotes

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

Emily Dickinson

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• My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Boy

• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Information
  • Internet

• That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Party
  • Language
  • Stronger

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Dad
  • Secret
  • Fan

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year

• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Want
  • Community
  • City

• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Like
  • Marvel

• My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Kind
  • Voice
  • Born

• I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • America
  • True
  • Political

• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • See

• The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.

  

  Halsey
  • Space
  • Difficult
  • Sound

• I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Design

• Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Liberty
  • Price

• Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Man
  • Quality

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Done
  • Art
  • Clothes

• We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.

  

  Enrique Lihn
  • Countries
  • Foreigners
  • Imitations

• I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Public

• I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

  

  Scott Caan
  • Stupid

• Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

  

  Alix Kates Shulman
  • Feel
  • Period
  • Novel

• I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Feel
  • Christ
  • Give Up