Top 99 Emmett Quotes
#1. Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.
Stephenie Meyer
#2. It was strange and amusing ... and, honestly, a bit embarrassing ... to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.
Stephenie Meyer
#3. Well, even if she does get her way, we can keep it small. Just us. Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet."
I giggled. " That does sound better." It wouldn't feel very official if Emmett read the vows, which was a plus. But I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face.
Stephenie Meyer
#4. I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.
Charles Diggs
#5. I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.
Elle Thornton
#6. I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,
Mamie Till
#7. I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!
Kellan Lutz
#8. POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.
Bijou Hunter
#9. You're monopolizing the bride," Emmett said, coming up behind Edward's shoulder. "Let me dance with my little sister. This could be my last chance to make her blush.
Stephenie Meyer
#10. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#11. and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#12. Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.
Chris Crowe
#13. If you don't send Edward out," Emmett - still invisible in the night - hissed menacingly,
"we're coming in after him!"
"Go," I laughed. "Before they break my house.
Stephenie Meyer
#14. Beside me, Edward leaned foward intently, his eyes locked on the brawl. Then Emmett froze.
Jasper had him from behind, his teeth and inch from his throat.
Emmett cussed.
Stephenie Meyer
#15. Emmett thought about that for a moment. 'You really ... love her?'
'I can't even describe it, Emmett. All of a sudden, this girl's the whole world to me. I don't see the point of the rest of the world without her anymore
Stephenie Meyer
#16. If you don't send Edward out, we're coming in after him! (Emmett)
Stephenie Meyer
#17. Hard to feel confident when you're surrounded by horse-sized wolves.
- Emmett Cullen
Stephenie Meyer
#18. POPPY: Not bad. I'd put you in the top three on my list of possible cherry poppers.
EMMETT: No way. Unless your list is me, myself, and I, you've only got one name on that list.
Bijou Hunter
#19. It was in this atmosphere of war, heroism, and controversy that my wife's grandmother, Johanna Boel Sigurdardottir, met and fell in love with Samuel Emmett Hearn Jr. He was a gallant soldier, and she was a natural beauty.
Gudjon Bergmann
#20. I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn't move.
Rosa Parks
#21. I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
Aaron Paul
#22. So it's still standing?" he managed to get out between his snickers. "I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?" Emmett howled with laughter.
Stephenie Meyer
#23. It's a little dense, don't you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?'
Emmett threw his head back and snorted. 'PLEASE!'
[ ... ]
I took a deep breath. 'Emmett, how do you feel about a little bet?'
He was on his feet at once. 'Awesome. Bring it.
Stephenie Meyer
#24. I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.
Stephenie Meyer
#25. Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.
Stephenie Meyer
#26. I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist
A.R. Braun
#27. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
Barbara Oakley
#28. And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.
Fred Shuttlesworth
#29. I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around. - Emmett Cullen
Stephenie Meyer
#30. A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.
Debbie Novotny
#31. also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola.
come here, said emmett.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#32. My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
Will Hobbs
#33. J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi.
Bernice L. McFadden
#34. EMMETT (on being a 'mama's boy'): Poppy teases me for being a mama's boy. She ain't wrong, but my ma's worth acting stupid over. She raised me in a rough world without losing her ability to be tender.
Bijou Hunter
#35. I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.
Rosa Parks
#36. Emmett and I met at a tantric sex education class a year ago,
Mary Calmes
#37. Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.
Emmett Shear
#38. People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.
Emmett Shear
#39. The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'
Emmett Shear
#40. A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.
Emmett Shear
#42. The pool of people you care about is going to shift over time.
Emmett Shear
#43. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.
Emmett Shear
#44. The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.
Emmett Shear
#45. A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
Emmett Kelly
#46. So you see, Hell's not so bad if you get to keep an angel with you.
Stephenie Meyer
#47. Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?
Emmett Shear
#48. Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.
Emmett Tyrrell
#49. Recording interviews is like magic. a) It stops you from taking notes in the middle and b) you can play that recording for people.
Emmett Shear
#50. People don't like silence, so they'll keep talking to fill the void.
Emmett Shear
#51. Whoa, whoa! Hold up, there, kid. She lives in Forks, remember? So she gets rained on.
Stephenie Meyer
#52. Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.
Emmett Tyrrell
#53. Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it.
Emmett Shear
#54. I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and appreciate that they leverage our platform to raise money for those in need. We continue to encourage giving in support of important causes, including Extra Life 2012.
Emmett Shear
#55. Life's lessons are designed that we would rise from 'The Fall' (or our failures) and be restored to our Divine nature.
Maya Emmett
#56. For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same.
Emmett Tyrrell
#57. I looked like a corpse, and not a particularly fresh corpse at that.
Emmett Spain
#58. The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.
Emmett Tyrrell
#59. Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.
Emmett Shear
#60. Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested.
Emmett Shear
#61. The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.
Emmett Shear
#62. But there were many among the people in the city who believed that Jesus had risen by the hand of God, and these commenced to complain of the injustice done to him, and to believe in his doctrines.
John Emmett Richardson
#63. A radical, who stood on top of an abandoned piano to declare that the fire was the friend of the poor and urge the crowd to help itself to what it wanted, was suddenly quieted by a well-aimed whiskey bottle.
Emmett Dedmon
#64. Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
Emmett Tyrrell
#65. The one question you can't ask is, is this feature actually good or not?
Emmett Shear
#66. The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.
Emmett Shear
#67. Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and ... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do ... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.
Emmett Shear
#68. I mean, electric shock? Isn't that a bit ... electric shock-y?
Emmett Spain
#69. [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.
Emmett Tyrrell
#70. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.
Emmett Shear
#71. It's one of the most validating things you can do for a product is go out there and get them to commit to pay you up front.
Emmett Shear
#72. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
Emmett F. Fields
#73. If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.
Emmett Shear
#74. You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.
Emmett Shear
#75. By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
Emmett Kelly
#76. Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.
Emmett Shear
#77. Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
Emmett Tyrrell
#78. The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?
Emmett Shear
#79. I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold. (Humans)
Robert Emmett
#80. Did I never tell you Sassicaia makes me horny?
Steve Emmett
#81. Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.
Emmett Tyrrell
#82. One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.
Emmett Tyrrell
#83. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.
Emmett Shear
#84. I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
Emmett Kelly
#85. I'm ashamed to say that getting behind the wheel of Dirk's shiny Penismobile was actually a lot of fun.
Emmett Spain
#86. I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall.
Nalini Singh
#87. Life's struggle is a partnership. We fight and win together, or we truly lose the vision of our powerful spirituality and awesome oneness.
Maya Emmett
#88. 'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.
Emmett Kelly
#89. The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.
Emmett Shear
#90. There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.
Emmett Shear
#92. You have this idea that you think is awesome. You want to have that broadest group you possibly can. You don't want to just talk to 1 type of person and learn that, you want to get familiar with the space.
Emmett Shear
#93. If there is peace in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." - Lao Tse
Emmett E. Miller
#94. I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Ole times dar am not forgotten,
Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!
* * * * *
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
To lib and die in Dixie.
Dan Emmett
#95. When Kirsten carried out a portable defibrillator the size of a breadbox, I very nearly went into cardiac arrest. Which, let's face it, would probably fall under the category of 'most ironic thing ever'.
Emmett Spain
#97. Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
Emmett Kelly
#98. Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.
Emmett Shear
#99. The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.
Emmett Shear
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