Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

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

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

Marianne Moore

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Marianne Moore

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Ruth Pitter

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Richard Savage

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Rose Tremain

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

S. Ansky

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

Sylvia Browne

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Sylvia Browne

the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own

Mary Oliver

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Marcel Proust

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

... that distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable...

Marcel Proust

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

Marcel Proust