Emily Dickinson Quotes

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Emily Dickinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FatherMotherBrotherMindSister

If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.

Joe Bonamassa

YouAchieveWorking HardHardAnswer

It's all about being comfortable, forgetting there's a microphone in front of you.

Anderson East

YouComfortableForgettingBeing

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

John Zorn

CrazyWorldYouIdealistic

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

CreativityNew ThingsCreativePeople

America likes you only if you're on the side she selects. If you don't go along with her totally, you're automatically considered to have entered the Soviet bloc.

Sukarno

AmericaYouGoSheSideHer

It's my job to be ridiculous.

Stromae

JobRidiculous

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Sholem Asch

SwordSpiritConqueredEverWhile

I believe things have a way of working out, and if they don't work out, maybe it's not the right thing.

Sidharth Malhotra

WorkBelieveI BelieveWayRight

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Rob Lowe

LearningChallengeParentRightFail

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Louis Farrakhan

WarAmericaStrikePresidentTurn

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

Douglas Southall Freeman

BrotherOpinionConstitutionCreate

The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater's killings of Iraqi civilians.

Shashi Tharoor

PowerReflectionAmericanAmerica

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