Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

J. G. Ballard

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

James Howard Kunstler

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph Needham

Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.

John Updike

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Michel de Montaigne

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

Orhan Pamuk

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

Paul Krugman

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

Peter Ustinov

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Susan Orlean

The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Tennessee Williams

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

Victoria Moran

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren Bennis

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

William Gibson

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Bryant H. McGill

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Daniel Goleman

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw