#height

Choosing between day and night. Edgar and Heathcliff. ↗

— Eileen Favorite

#wuthering-heights #love

What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was quite young when she wrote it, and had never been outside of Haworth churchyard. She had never known any men in her life; how could she imagine a man like Heathcliffe? I couldn't do it, and I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum - I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out to be a great author? ↗

— Jean Webster

#jerusha-abbott #writing #wuthering-heights #change

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ↗

— Jean Houston

#accounts #artists #athletes #beings #believe

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#government #height #incomplete #millions #millions of dollars

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#height #how #low #measure #mountain

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#brooklyn #career #height #his #i

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#deep #doing #fall #fallen #gravity

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#back #back up #beginning #career #climb

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#determined #greatness #height #his #little