Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Howard Rheingold

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jacob Bronowski

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Joanna Baillie

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

Julianna Baggott

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

Julianna Baggott

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Julianna Baggott

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

Joë Bousquet

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Edmund Blunden

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Emily Dickinson

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Edward Gorey

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

A. E. Housman

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Elizabeth Jennings

i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Bob Hicok

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver