Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind.


Emily Robison

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
VICTORIA JACKSON
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his ...
PAUL BEGALA
I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hol...
VALERIE PLAME
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn&#...
DEBI MAZAR
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any dif...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
If you're a musician, you're a musician; you don't ever get that out of your bones.
ALEX CLARE
I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal a...
NICK CANNON
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down step...
ROGER MOORE
And you spend your evening in your color. The idea is to take things which open (your) mind, that sp...
PHILIPPE STARCK
See with your mind, Speak with your heart,
Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.
B.J. NEBLETT
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
CARLOS SANTANA
We wanted people to take away a feeling of responsibility. Hopefully, when you visit this museum, yo...
DAVID GRANGE
Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
KATORI HALL
I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Der...
DARIN STRAUSS
Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number soun...
RYAN HOLMES
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work ...
STEVE MARTIN
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
YOUNG JEEZY
I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody els...
MISSY ELLIOTT
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You...
KEVIN BACON
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT
Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about y...
MIKE GALLAGHER
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you a...
KATE MILLETT
Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.
JOHN DARNIELLE
Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote isl...
JACK CANFIELD
Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creatur...
MARCUS AURELIUS
A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bou...
MICHAEL ANGARANO
In the day-to-day life of a traveling musician, it's easy to miss so many details. The world goe...
ERIC BURDON
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in ...
SARAH WAYNE CALLIES
I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
INA GARTEN
Just because it is not done your way, doesn't mean it is not right.
CHARMAINE J FORDE
I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN
There are times when your mind isn't ready to go but your body is, and times when your body is r...
BEN ZOBRIST
Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
JEFF COOPER
Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
JOYCE MEYER
I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON
I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me.
NEYMAR
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
EVANGEL
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you ...
ROBERT FRIPP
Frustration & insecurity eats away your strength & confidence.Be ambitious, keep your priorities abo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try t...
EVEL KNIEVEL
You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ...
ESPERANZA SPALDING
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, ...
KAREN FINERMAN
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks ...
GARY COLE
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what ...
LARRY PAGE
Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own...
ANGELA BOWIE
The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't o...
MARILYN MONROE
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challeng...
BAT FOR LASHES
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
MAGGIE SMITH
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I...
ALAN DAVIES
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a websit...
NEKO CASE
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn&#...
KATE MARA
Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths ...
GINA BARRECA
Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front o...
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH
We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, ...
RONY ABOVITZ
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear does...
DALE CARNEGIE
It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away wi...
CHARLES DUHIGG
When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it...
EWAN MCGREGOR
Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationshi...
CHRIS MARTIN
If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's ...
DAVID AGUS
If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, ...
JOHN HURT
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you'v...
DR. SEUSS
If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then...
EDDIE MARSAN
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good c...
ELI PARISER
Sometimes you want to dress a certain way... that doesn't always reflect your pedigree.
EZRA KOENIG
I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound ...
DAVID CROSBY
Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing...
BOBBY FLAY
All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can ...
DAVID ROBINSON
Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE
There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your s...
CHERYL COLE
Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't ta...
STERLING K. BROWN
Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good r...
STEPHEN CHOW
We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. ...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA
I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I di...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein...
TOM ELLIS
With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Becau...
RONY ABOVITZ
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every...
JERRY GARCIA
Actions speak louder than words. Always do what you think and know what is right. Work with dignity ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about lov...
MATTIE STEPANEK
Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of y...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have ...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise wha...
MARIO TEGUH
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
JACK BENNY
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it d...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determi...
SAMUEL BARNETT
Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an i...
KIM ALEXIS
People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with it...
BILL HICKS
It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil...
BECKY LYNCH
If it's the right chair, it doesn't take too long to get comfortable in it.
ROBERT DE NIRO
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it bec...
EMMITT SMITH
I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a write...
BRYAN COGMAN
If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't fee...
SARA BAREILLES
Belichick's actually great. I wouldn't mind being the New England Patriots. They seem to win...
SETH ROLLINS
You don't buy a Harley with your mind, you buy it with your heart and your balls.
ROBERT PATRICK
Being a pro athlete doesn't mean you treat your body right, even though it's so important to...
SUMMER SANDERS

More Emily Robison

Especially in the Dixie Chicks, everyone wants you to play a role. Natalie was the feisty one. Marti...
EMILY ROBISON
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's sca...
EMILY ROBISON
The stakes were definitely higher on that song. We knew it was special because it was so autobiograp...
EMILY ROBISON
I think you can only last this long in the business when you're making the best music, and he's just...
EMILY ROBISON
We knew [the song] was special because it was so autobiographical.
EMILY ROBISON
I ride horses once in a while, but I'm no expert. I hold on for dear life.
EMILY ROBISON
Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
EMILY ROBISON
It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ...
EMILY ROBISON
I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, a...
EMILY ROBISON
It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
EMILY ROBISON
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have di...
EMILY ROBISON
People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a &...
EMILY ROBISON
I just know that I could never spend a winter in Chicago or some place like that. I'm just not a...
EMILY ROBISON
When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but...
EMILY ROBISON
It's in my head even before the kick is off that I'm going to block it.
BRIAN ROBISON
We stayed in the gaps like we were supposed to and put pressure on the quarterback. We didn't see mu...
BRIAN ROBISON
I have hit him a couple of times. He is a big load. I have never hit anyone like that before.
BRIAN ROBISON
It feels great to show week in and week out that we are one of the best teams in the country and not...
BRIAN ROBISON
Someone's going home with a loss. And I don't plan on it being us.
BRIAN ROBISON
People are going to lose before the end of the year. Hopefully, it won't be us.
BRIAN ROBISON
It's going to be a Super Bowl-type atmosphere.
BRIAN ROBISON
We would favour complementary therapies being available on the NHS, but they have to have been teste...
SHONA ROBISON
You're going to see a whole new wave of innovation that will come from just programming to the Inter...
SHANE ROBISON
Having him around is so much fun. He knows exactly how to help you, no matter what you are strugglin...
ASHLEY ROBISON
About all I know is that his name is up on the center field fence in Carson. That's pretty cool.
ASHLEY ROBISON
I don't even know his real name. I just call him 'Dad.' That's what everybody calls him. My dad is a...
ASHLEY ROBISON
And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your ...
PHILIP ROBISON
When the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your hear...
PHILIP ROBISON
Images are no longer good enough in a frame on the wall.
MITCH ROBISON
I have been concerned for some time that even an outbreak of the usual illnesses could leave the hea...
SHONA ROBISON
I don't know if anyone's going to sit through an hour of Lost on the Internet yet. You've seen how j...
GEOFFREY ROBISON
(Proposition 66 and the Reform Three Strikes Act) are like apples and oranges.
JANE ROBISON
(Cooley) feels that Three Strikes should only be used for the most serious and violent felons.
JANE ROBISON
There is an eligibility process for drug court. It's up to the judge in drug court to determine if s...
JANE ROBISON
The petty theft charge is a result of him taking a cab and stiffing the cab driver. He took a cab fr...
JANE ROBISON
We agreed to allow her to go into drug diversion.
JANE ROBISON
She's not charged with anything. She just happens to be a witness in this case.
JANE ROBISON
The hearing was postponed so she could have her arm taken care of.
JANE ROBISON
We are in the process of reviewing 45 cases, but we don't anticipate there will be additional charge...
JANE ROBISON
There was no evidence that it was a hate crime. They were street thugs and it was a robbery.
JANE ROBISON
We can't confirm either way, that it's going to be favorable or not.
JANE ROBISON
We had an excellent meet and a lot of great performances. It was just the kind of meet we needed wit...
MARK ROBISON
We had a good meet overall. The conditions were ideal and the guys did really well. We improved quit...
MARK ROBISON
I'm extremely pleased with how well we performed. That's a lot of points for how many events we were...
MARK ROBISON
We had a very good two days of competition this weekend.
MARK ROBISON
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosi...
EMILY
They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by ...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or a leg, or drowned him in t...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my li...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people wi...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibit...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the aver...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I have what you might call “logical empathy” for people I don’t know. That is, I can understan...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
The fact is, from an evolutionary standpoint, people have an inbred tendency to care about and prote...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Nice people like them by children like him and raise them as pets. But he didn't want to be a pet to...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
...delineated with signs reading:

TOWN OF AMHERST
WATERSHED
NO TRESPASSING
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
My conversational difficulties highlight a problem Aspergians face every day. A person with an obvio...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Last summer, when he thought I wasn't looking, I observed Cubby telling one of the neighborhood six-...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, a...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Soon I was spending all my time in the basement, and I had moved from taking things apart to putting...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Sociopath” and “psycho” were two of the most common field diagnoses for my look and expression...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I tried to show him things, but he didn't seem to study what I showed him. Usually, he just put what...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Asperger’s is not a disease. It’s a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one....
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that thr...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
When we pulled in, the customs officer looked in the back. The back of the wagon was filled with cas...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world whe...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I used to fear barking dogs. I would cringe and say to myself, 'Nice doggie please don't bite me I'l...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pa...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTE
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and...
EMILY DICKINSON
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON
Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
My friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSON
Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion...
EMILY GIFFIN
I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and e...
EMILY MORTIMER
I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
EMILY OSMENT
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTE
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
EMILY CARR
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
EMILY BLUNT
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as m...
EMILY DICKINSON
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh...
EMILY CARR
Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, ...
EMILY BERRINGTON
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
EMILY DICKINSON
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON
I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON
I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON
I'm a big zombie buff.
EMILY VANCAMP
How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER
I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl...
EMILY WATSON
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON
May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
the end! Where is she? Not there - ...
EMILY BRONTë
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTë
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
EMILY BRONTë
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no...
EMILY BRONTë
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...
EMILY BRONTë
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë
It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë
She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë
Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë
It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo...
EMILY CARROLL
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON
My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l...
EMILY WEISS
The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th...
EMILY DESCHANEL
Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.
EMILY DICKENSON
Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTë
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTë
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON
Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSON
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON
In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battle...
EMILY THORNE
This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
EMILY DICKINSON
That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most imperso...
EMILY MAGUIRE
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë
The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON
Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON
Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON
The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ...
EMILY BRONTE
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
EMILY PRAGER
Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSON
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
EMILY DICKINSON
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about th...
EMILY POST
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
EMILY POST
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...
EMILY BRONTE
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
EMILY DICKINSON
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
EMILY CARR
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON
Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
EMILY DICKINSON
Let us go in; the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON
Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just...
EMILY DICKINSON
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
EMILY BRONTE
Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words --...
EMILY DICKINSON
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON
Where thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSON
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSON
His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n...
EMILY DICKINSON
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe...
EMILY DICKINSON
How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro...
EMILY DICKINSON
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone y...
EMILY CARR
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTE
Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary gra...
EMILY BRONT
This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE
To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON
His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu...
EMILY MILLER
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi...
EMILY BRONTE
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e...
EMILY CARR
Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON
A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON
The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON
'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON
I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!
EMILY POST
I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON
Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern sup...
EMILY POST
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON
If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON