Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Dick Gregory

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

David Mamet

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Elias Canetti

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Frank Darabont

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Franz Kafka

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

Graham Swift

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Isaac Rosenberg

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John le Carre

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Joseph Conrad

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

Judah Friedlander

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin

I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!

Jill Scott

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

Joss Whedon

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Lewis Mumford

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.

Lurlene McDaniel