Emma Quotes - Page 3

• My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

  George Weah

  Christmas, Father, Grandmother

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her.

  Emma Roberts

  Gossip, Feuds, Mets

  "The Family Moan". E!, January 12, 2006.

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• They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Patriotic, Storm

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they've never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn't. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you're forced to rewrite them entirely. You can't walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it's all dead and you know it's going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma

  Rachel Wade

  Thinking, Perspective, Priorities

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• In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of a character in a single conversational exchange, or show us the gulf between his soulful heroine and her dull-witted husband in a sentence (and one that, moreover, presages all Emma's later experience of men). (...) This is one of the summits of prose art, and not to know such a masterpiece is to live a diminished life.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Husband, Character

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• She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

  David Nicholls

  Flirting, Light, Sun

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.

  David Nicholls

  Missing, My Best Friend, Courses

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• You're Bes, I guess?" I said. "Yes," he said. "Your car's a mess," Liz muttered. "If one more person rhymes," Emma grumbled, "I'll throw up.

  Rick Riordan

  Car, Liz, Said

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body ... I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't make six new characters instead of one.

  Lore Segal

  Writing, Character, Hard Times

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

  Brigham Young

  Care, Bishops, Hell

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• The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where you feel very safe and very confident and able to experiment with characters. It's a great place to be as an actor.

  Christopher Nolan

  Character, Atmosphere, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

  Andrew Davies

  Mistake, Crosses, Should

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• I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

  Octavia Spencer

  Believe, Thinking, Promise

  "OTRC: Oscars 2012: Octavia Spencer backstage: I hope I can be 'beacon of hope'". Press Backstage at the Academy Awards, abc7.com. February 26, 2012.

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• When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

  Maureen Dowd

  Writing, Thinking, Black

  "Comics in context #78: summoned to sin city" by Peter Sanderson, www.ign.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Animal, Play

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• For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Ideas, Violet, Peculiar

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• I miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the words hushed and forlorn. "Why does it hurt now?" I'm sighing and shoving a hand through my hair, which I know from experience leaves strands of it stabbing out in numerous directions, defiant and crazy-looking. Maybe crazy is exactly how I feel. "Because now we have hope of something more.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Crazy, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.182, Tammara Webber

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• There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Women, Safety

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.172

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• If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to be there. Nash Hudson would be one of the stars: too bright to look at, too hot to touch and at the center of his own solar system.

  Rachel Vincent

  Stars, School, Moon

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.11, Harlequin

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• I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

  E.D. Baker

  Believe, Princess, People

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• Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

  Michael Cunningham

  Heart, Sorrow, Needs

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• Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Book, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”

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• …and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Soul, Portions

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• He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

  David Nicholls

  Laughter, Laughing, Feelings

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