Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Marcel Proust

My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

Mattie Stepanek

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Michael Winner

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

The Notorious B.I.G.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

Nikki Giovanni

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Nikki Giovanni

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Annie Dillard

The pain we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all.

Oedipus the King

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Charles Baudelaire

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Alex Flinn

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Allen Tate

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Tim Burton

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

Viggo Mortensen

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

Bernadette Peters

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Douglas Coupland

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

David Leavitt

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor