Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

A. S. Byatt

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Sinclair Lewis

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Susan Minot

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie

When people meet me, they're often surprised - I talk a great deal.

Sylvester Stallone

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

William H. Macy

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

Armando Iannucci

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Aristotle

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

Julian Baggini

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Nikki Giovanni

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Thomas Paine

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Wendell Berry

I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

Adam Michnik