Emily Dickinson Quotes

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

Topics

TimeDoneFirst TimeFirstLittle

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

John Benjamin Hickey

HeartFeelYouFindPlayPassionate

How can educated and sophisticated viewers react so differently to a work of art? Is it just Kulture Klash? No, since most of the time there's no Klash at all. On the occasions when we disagree, it may be because we're looking for different things in dance.

Robert Gottlieb

WorkTimeArtDanceLookingReact

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Stephen Spender

ReligionSunChurchBlockingStands

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

Stanley Elkin

InterestingDieYouMoreFictionUs

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Stone Gossard

TimePoliticsYouChoiceTricky

Of course I love silverware in my football career. But sometimes you can't rush from A to Z.

Robin Van Persie

LoveFootballYouCareerSometimes

When I left 'Being Human,' that was painful because the show was going on without me. But with 'Him & Her,' we finished on such a high together that if it is the end, it couldn't have stopped at a better time. But I hope with 'Him & Her' that we'll get another crack of the whip: that the writer might change his mind and write some more.

Russell Tovey

ChangeHopeTimeTogetherMindMe

I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.

Mija

FeelDoingLevelSomethingLike

I was working at a restaurant in L.A. when a producer came in. He said I should audition for this movie 'Cellular.' I did, and I got the part. It actually makes me sick to tell that story because it's obnoxious.

Mircea Monroe

MeSickStoryRestaurantSaidTell

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Livy

MenBlessingsMisfortunesRecognize

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift

HeavenIgnorantExpressly

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

Ciaran Hinds

FunnyEasyHumanityEdgeKindWitty

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