Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Ingrid Newkirk

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Philip Reeve

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Solon

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

The Dream of a Common Language

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The Art of War

As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art?

Hourglass Museum

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

Mary Oliver

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

Mary Oliver

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

Meghan O'Rourke

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

Nizar Qabbani

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Nancy Springer

When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

Natasha Trethewey

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

Ned Vizzini

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.

Ogden Nash

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Ogden Nash