Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

Alexander McCall Smith

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Bill Maher

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

Carlos Fuentes

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Craig Raine

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

Derek Bok

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

Dick Van Dyke

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

David Letterman

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

David O. Russell

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Fran Drescher

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Georg Buchner

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

George Meredith

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

Henry Rollins

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Henry Rollins