Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

Talib Kweli

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Thomas Love Peacock

There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.

Thomas Love Peacock

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Tom Robbins

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

Thomas Shadwell

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Kathy Acker

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

Kathy Acker

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Keren Ann

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Katharine Lee Bates

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Ken Follett

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Kay Ryan

In my mother's house there is still God." Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

Laura Schlessinger

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Mark Akenside

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

Max Beerbohm

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Mary Jo Bang

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

Marilyn Hacker

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Mary Karr