Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Richard Dawkins

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Rita Dove

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Rita Dove

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

Rita Dove

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Rita Dove

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Rita Dove

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Rita Dove

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Rita Dove

I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.

Rosario Dawson

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Richard Dawkins

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Richard Le Gallienne

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Richard Le Gallienne

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

Robert Hass

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Robert Hass

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

Sigmund Freud

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Sigmund Freud