Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.

Vladimir Kramnik

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Sofia Coppola

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

Siri Hustvedt

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Will Ferrell

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

Alan Moore

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Brian Eno

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Colin Angle

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Marshall McLuhan

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Motion

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Richard Dawkins

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Timothy Leary

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

Clive Barker

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

Christopher Lee

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Edmund White

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Francis Ford Coppola

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

George Berkeley

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell