Emily Quotations

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.

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.

Emily Osment has 'osteo-old-woman-itis.' She can't lift weights or do physical activity but ride her bike and do yoga.

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

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?

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.

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.

I didn't want to just go from memory. So I did research, getting Emily Post books and making notes. I really wanted to know that what I was sharing with the girls was correct. Every year they invite me back, and every year the program becomes more elaborate. I keep adding more subjects.

Losing Emily hurt because she creates shots for other people. I probably should have called a timeout to get her out of there.

Miranda did a very good job. Emily had a lot of putouts in center field, Danielle Cavanaugh played great at second base, and Cassidy Warner played well at first.

She has made big improvement. Emily is extremely consistent all of the time. She has been doing a lot of pace work and is an extremely hard worker. She has gotten what she deserves and tried to break that record for the last four years.

She does a great job of distributing the ball, finding the open person, pushing the ball up the floor. She can shoot the three, and she can shoot it deep, which draws the defense out and opens up Emily inside.

Lydia and Emily will be very important this year. They both have national meet experience and we will lean on them.

She was solid for us. She and (catcher) Emily Dixon are a great pair. She did a good job hitting her spots and playing right to our defense.

She was last seen last (Friday) up around Mount Emily Road.

Haley did a great job offensively and Emily had a great game defensively. She did a lot of things to disrupt Lee's offense.

I felt like we did really well. Emily Burgess did a great job of coming in without any preparation. We saw a lot of kids do some things we were excited about.

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.

We looked more to the basket tonight. Marissa and Heather shot it well from the outside. They (Coffeyville) were packing it in on Emily Larson so we got good looks from outside and the girls hit them.

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.

We talked about scoring in the first inning because we realize how important it is for us. We exploded out, and made a statement immediately. We couldn't quite finish it, but we did get to play everybody. Emily (Turner) wasn't as sharp as she has been, but she was still in total control except for one pitch.

My passion for that recovery began when I was in grad school. I was assigned to read the women poets that Emily Dickinson read and I was hooked. I began obsessively reading 19th-century novels by women. There was a richness, humor and a detailed portrayal of the plight of women in 19th-century America. It became a cause for me to bring the possibility of teaching these writers at the college level to the forefront.

Jane and Emily have both explored the depths of their talents. They are both new to these roles, and they have developed characters with great intensity. They've both been around for a long time, but I think this may be the hardest they've ever worked.

I thought it was important for Emily to throw tonight. She had a rough outing against Oregon State and we wanted to give her back a little bit of confidence. She threw hard and I thought her ball moved well. She was in control during the game.

Last year in the tournament Emily realized that she can score, too.

It is a new injury. But whether there happened to be something else, the same outcome would have happened ? and Emily would be able to compete.

It is a very choppy market. The earlier hurricane threat did impact the U.S. oil market. Refinery runs were being reduced as workers got evacuated. Now Emily looks to be approaching.

Katie DeGraaf is looking really good, which is important with Emily out.

I thought Emily did a fantastic job all weekend. She has become what she was at the end of the year last year. She is becoming the complete pitcher. Not only is she physically gifted, but she understands how to pitch now and not just throw.

I thought Emily played fantastic, and she really held her own. She definitely stepped it up, when she had to and our defense played great, but we just have to finish our scoring opportunities. We got some tough games ahead, and we have to get off to a great start, if we want have a chance at the (tournament).

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

I thought that Emily was dynamite in the first game.

You know what? I like Michelle very much. Whatever happens, I think it's wonderful. I just want Emily to skate the best she can. What it is is what it is. I know we've done whatever we can.

Today we had a fabulous team effort. Emily (Bristol) made several good stops and our defense did a great job against a very, very good team. We made sure that they didn't get any real good shots at the goal.

I would like to see Emily break 5:30 and she should medal. Once they get there you never know what will happen.

We're very well-rounded in scoring. Emily is the go-to person inside, but we've had different people step up at the other positions in various games. That makes us challenging to guard.

I was really happy with the balance on offense. Danielle got her points early and Emily did a great job on the boards. All her points came off of offensive rebounds.

We have not been contacted by anybody. Emily is ready to skate anytime, anywhere. Right now she's preparing for the world championships.

When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

We're losing our ace (Amanda Vaught) after this season. Emily can step right into her role. Amanda won a school record 19 games for us last spring.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

The really great writers are people like Emily Bront? who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

We knew that they had been waiting 10 months. They came out and played hard and they were prepared. We withstood some stuff in the beginning and luckily broke through against Emily Price, who pitched a great game.

We've tried to have it here. I'd like to know I have the pitching strength. Bethany can move the ball better than the other three. Nichole can pitch really fast. Emily and Michelle are young and they have a lot to learn.

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

When we were all down and out, having the worst time of our lives -- we were cold and we were miserable -- Emily was bawling, but she still had a smile on her face. Emily is one of the most positive people I know.

There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.

We started a little slow, but got rolling pretty quick. Every girl got at least one at-bat and that was good to see. I thought we hit the ball well and Emily pitched a solid game.

Through his relationship with Emily he discovers a satanic presence which reinforces his belief that she is not simply psychotic.

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.

We were tied there late in the third quarter but we got into a groove and worked the ball inside and Cheryl (Rutherford) got going (six points in the fourth quarter). Our bench gave us a big lift tonight, especially Emily Brant. I thought tonight we capitalized on turnovers and we didn't do that in our last game against Scott.

The time standards for this meet are much greater than the sectional meet. Emily continues to step up to achieve greater time standards which allows her more opportunities to swim with other swimmers across the country.

The swimming was really fun and a new experience. I got to go to Universal Studios and a big mall. Emily Schwab (friend from Wisconsin) was there and a lot of my other friends on other teams.

We will cheer Emily on enthusiastically, but my heart hurts for Michelle Kwan.

What an incredible honor, not only for Emily, but also for our program. Emily deserves all of the positives she is seeing in her performances because she is literally the hardest working athlete I have ever coached.

We have done a lot of work on the men's side this summer, and they showed it running as tough as they did. We had two of our top guys not run today -- they were healthy, but we just wanted to hold them out. We are really good on the men's side -- we are thrilled. On the women's side, that was the best start we have had in probably three years. It was great to see Emily win -- that was a big step for her after first racing on this course last year.

Both Lauren and Emily wanted to stay in, but they got enough work in for one night. They'll be back out Thursday.

We had outstanding swim from some of our senior girls. Emily Edwards had career-best times in the 50 fly and 100 breaststroke and Kim O'Neill did the same in the 200 IM and 50 free.

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.

A younger pitcher might have been more worried, but Emily was just fine.

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.

Our depth really showed itself. We scored in eight of 10 events but only had one first place. When you can score in 80 percent of the events, it is a total team effort. Doing what we did without having Emily there is a testimony to the girls. That really says something about the quality of how we ran.

Our defense has played against Tiff Weimer for four years now, Melissa Miller and Emily Francis know her, and they are going to be the two responsible for trying to handle her. She is a pretty difficult player to contain, and it starts with just containing her. She is a hell of a talent, it's an honor for us to have her here in her senior year and have this opportunity to play with her.

Emily and Sarah were very outstanding. Elena also did quite well.

Emily could dissipate and essentially be sucked up into Cindy. It could also be the other way around.

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

Emily did a fine job filling that spot.

Emily did not swim her fastest times but qualifying for the finals is a great achievement.

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.

(Emily) gets her boots custom-made. Then once she gets them, we mount them, fit them to the blades, make sure they don't just fit like a shoe, they fit like a glove. Remember, this is a sport where balance is everything. And that's the great thing about this girl: Through this whole thing, she kept her balance. They tried to break her heart by sending the other woman (Kwan), and what did Emily do? She went back to work. She kept skating.

Emily Gutted it out again. She was not as sharp as she'd like to be, but she continues to work hard and get out of jams.

Emily had a good floor game. We put her a point sometimes and she ran the offense well.

Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so far and I think she came through it very well.

Emily had an outstanding first year, and her international experience will be a key for us in 2005.

Emily had a real good game today. We saw an opportunity to use her abilities, and it worked. We were able to have her leak out, run the floor in transition and get some easy baskets. She's explosive, and we reaped the benefits of that today by turning her loose.

Emily has been around our program for the last two to three years and knows what we do. I feel very fortunate that she will play here for two years. She can be an outstanding junior college pitcher.

Emily has been big for us in every game during the tournament. She hit the big threes, but it was more the timing with those she hit back-to-back in the Mentor game.

Emily has been there all year knocking down big shots. In the past she did a little of this and a little of that, contributing with the little things and her strong defense, but this year she has stepped up her offense as well.

Emily has come on the team and should be right up there.

Emily has looked very good for us early in the season.

Emily has one of the finest voices we've heard in three series.

Emily has pitched well all season, and we played great defense behind her today.

Emily has the control swing, which will help her game this season. I'm expecting to see some better scores out of Nicole this spring, she is getting more opportunities this season to perfect her game.

Emily is a fantastic leader. She has been an honor to coach these past three years and I am very proud of her as she leads this team into the 2006 spring dual season. Our younger players are very fortunate to have someone of Emily's character to look up to.

Emily is a great kid and she works hard. Her speed will help anybody. It's a definite benefit. She is a very smart runner and knows the game.

Emily is a leader and a hard worker. She brings a spark to the team with her bat and her defensive skills. I'm expecting her and Nikki to have good years at the plate. Nikki always gives 100 percent effort 100 percent of the time.

Emily is a strong player who will be an attribute to the team both on the forward line and in the midfield. She has strong stick and passing skills which will prove to be beneficial for our team next season.

Emily is a wonderful athlete. She competed well here. She also competed well at junior worlds. Michelle competed well at worlds last year (finishing fourth), The committee felt that Michelle probably would have a better chance for a medal.

Emily is a wonderful athlete, she competed well. Michelle competed well at worlds last year. There aren't numbers I can compare there, there are relationships.

Emily is extremely intelligent with her decision making and she sees things two steps ahead of her opponents. She can play the ball anywhere on the field that she wants to and can quarterback the entire team from the midfield. She will add a lot to our attack from the midfield with her ability to score goals herself and to give her teammates opportunities to score.

Emily is our zone-breaker. She was absolutely amazing tonight.