Emily Dickinson Quotes

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson

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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Losing

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • Love
  • Character

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • Past
  • Stupid

• Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• That’s a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? That’s like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware -- she took the dog, too. (Harvick) didn’t get the animal, I would say.

  

  Clint Bowyer
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Divorce

• What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.

  

  Leonor Varela
  • Mother
  • Future
  • Growing

• Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

  

  Plato
  • Mother
  • Invention

• I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Mother