Emily Dickinson Quotes

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock -

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• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Knowledge
  • Beauty
  • Memory

• I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Coffee

• Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Party

• There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.

  

  Joan Blondell
  • Hate
  • Dog
  • Acting

• But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Change
  • Failure
  • Environmental

• When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life.

  

  Ara Guler
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Stands

• Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

  

  Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
  • Family
  • Population
  • Abortion

• The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • People
  • Brain
  • Human

• How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Property
  • Time Is
  • Broad

• Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock -

  

  Emily Dickinson
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