Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Diablo Cody

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Denis Diderot

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Desiderius Erasmus

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Ernest Renan

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Edith Sitwell

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Frederick the Great

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

George R. R. Martin

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Henry James

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Howard Nemerov

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Henry Rollins

Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.

Howard Schultz

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

Irwin Shaw

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Irwin Shaw

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Jean de la Bruyere

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean de la Bruyere

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

John Cassavetes