Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Ariel Durant

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

Alexander Payne

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Ali Smith

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Ben Affleck

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Baltasar Gracian

Falsifiability for a theory is great, but a theory can still be respectable even if it is not falsifiable, as long as it is verifiable.

Brian Greene

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Cesare Lombroso

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

Dick Gregory

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

David Mamet

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Elias Canetti

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Frank Darabont

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Franz Kafka

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.

Graham Swift

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Isaac Rosenberg

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John le Carre

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Joseph Conrad