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Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense. -- Tom Verlaine
No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! -- Andy Richter
I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. -- Simon Van Booy
Emily Osment has 'osteo-old-woman-itis.' She can't lift weights or do physical activity but ride her bike and do yoga. -- Lucas Till
And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready. -- Jilly Cooper
One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever. -- Tig Notaro
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. -- James A. Michener
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte. -- Bill Bryson
I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader. -- Patty Hearst
When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers. -- Cody Linley
After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my 'Criminal Minds' family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities. -- Paget Brewster
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. -- Maurice Sendak
Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed. -- Robin Wright
Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago. -- Helen Oyeyemi
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either. -- Jennifer Carpenter
Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system. -- Alexandra Adornetto
She's stupid, isn't she, Emily? -- Jun Mochizuki
[Emily Litella line:] Never mind. -- Gilda Radner
Toby twisted around. "Boo." Emily screamed. -- Sara Shepard
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Emily BrontÃ«'s "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me. -- Alice Hoffman
Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth. -- Jun Mochizuki
What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine. -- S.A. Tawks
If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere. -- Barbara Delinsky
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history. -- Camille Paglia
You're perfectly safe. Emily is here to protect your virtue." "That's too bad. -- Kady Cross
Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY! Bindy: Watch me. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest. -- Carol Bly
Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox -- Jennifer Donnelly
Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill. -- Groucho Marx
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow. -- A. J. Jacobs
Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination. -- S.A. Tawks
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. -- Douglas Coupland
What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly? -- S.A. Tawks
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid. -- Liz Kessler
She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her! -- Gloria Estefan
It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people. -- Ian Mcewan
A horse's hindquarters appeared at the door, the horse backing slowly down a rampBuckwheat!" Emily squealedYou bringed my horsie!" -- Pamela Clare
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded. -- Sally Mann
Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion. -- Allie Burke
What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain? -- Jaclyn Moriarty
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. -- Charles Simic
Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping. -- Don Roff
Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world. -- Christopher Benfey
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons. -- Billy Collins
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons. -- Billy Collins
With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. -- S.A. Tawks
Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am. -- Patricia MacLachlan
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am. -- Patricia MacLachlan
Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman -- Laura Nyro
I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
I've developed a way to separate myself from me being me, to me being the character. I can separate watching me, Tinsel Korey, from watching Emily -- Tinsel Korey
Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said. -- Clare B. Dunkle
Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us. -- Amor Towles
Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie. -- Eva LaRue
When Emily Dickinson writes, "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief. -- Terry Tempest Williams
The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing! -- Alex Pareene
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them. -- Helen Vendler
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson -- Matt Groening
I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right? -- Kate Bernheimer
It is as if Emily BrontÃ« could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality. -- Virginia Woolf
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room. -- Maureen Corrigan
I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right? -- Kate Bernheimer
I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said. -- Jodi Picoult
How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich. -- Woody Allen
I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing. -- Billy Collins
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did. -- Betty Friedan
Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats. -- Billy Collins
I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs. -- Meryl Streep
Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run. -- Rachel Sklar
P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. -- John Rhys-Davies
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love." -- Agatha Christie
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love. -- Agatha Christie
When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding. -- Mallory Ortberg
You touch everyone, Emily. You touch a father's heart. A stranger's loyalty, and the soul I never knew I had. You touch it, and you remind us of all the innocence we've lost in the world." - Kell Krieger -- Lora Leigh
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them. -- Edward Hirsch
Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope. -- Christopher Benfey
I made my personal discovery of Emily Carr while visiting Victoria in 1981 to write a travel article. Immediately, her strong colors attracted me; her spunk fascinated me. Her down-to-earth voice in her writing appealed to me as authentic and original. -- Susan Vreeland
In school, I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either. -- Jennifer Carpenter
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence. -- Francesca Lia Block
Carter was so taken aback by her attack he dropped his knife. "You knocked him stupid," he bellowed. "No," Emily corrected in what she believed was a reasonable tone of voice. "He was already stupid. I knocked him out. -- Julie Garwood
When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell. -- Margarita Engle
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. -- Maurice Sendak
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package. -- Billy Collins
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Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily BrontÃ« and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong. -- Edward Hirsch
I knew everything about her backstory. I skimmed through all the books and read through everything that happened between Sam (Chaske Spencer), Emily and Leah (Julia Jones), so by the time we started filming, I knew everything that had to do with my storyline. -- Tinsel Korey
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame. -- L.M. Montgomery
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame. -- L.M. Montgomery
I was born in New York City, along with a twin sister. I am five minutes older than Emily. It was Emily, for reasons no one knows - she certainly doesn't - who called me Avi. It stuck. It's the only name I use now. -- Avi
Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was so happy for her sister. It was a charming moment, and I think thats the essence of what Emily Hughes is. -- Dick Button
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily - I hope I have understood.' Emily's poems are sometimes difficult, often abstract, on occasion flippant, but her mind is inside them. -- Helen Oyeyemi
Finding original source material is not easy, but when something special like 'Edge of Tomorrow' comes along, everybody recognized it. I wasn't swimming against the stream. Warner Brothers immediately supported it, Tom Cruise signed on instantly; Emily Blunt, who was our first choice, signed on immediately. -- Doug Liman
I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think. -- Jennifer Ehle
In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted. -- Luis Gonzalez
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I see that I have been engaged to Emily [Blunt] without ever asking her. The big question I had was, do you think I would ask her to marry me through 'Hello' magazine? Would I do something like that? Would she allow that to happen? It is completely ridiculous. -- Michael Buble
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan. -- Emily Dickinson
At EMILY's List, we're in the business of expanding the political power of women. -- Ellen Malcolm
EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain. -- Ellen Malcolm
I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her. -- Ellen Malcolm
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson. -- Pico Iyer
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death. -- Samantha Shannon
I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happened. The next thing you know, I ended up booking the gig and I did four seasons on 'Emily of New Moon.' I got to learn on the job and kept going from there. -- Shawn Roberts
Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie. -- Jerry Oppenheimer
EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out. -- Ellen Malcolm
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it. -- Zooey Deschanel
It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president. -- Ellen Malcolm
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost. -- Paul Simon
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. -- Thornton Wilder
Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988. -- Ellen Malcolm

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