Quotes of: Poe Keyword

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Friedrich Nietzsche

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

Oedipus the King

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

Annie Dillard

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Charles Baudelaire

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Ang Lee

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Adrian Mitchell

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Archibald MacLeish

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

I've always had the same values. Family for me has always been important. When I shoot, everybody comes.

Tom Cruise

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Thomas Mann

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

Trey Parker

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

Tom Rachman

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Ugo Betti

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

Victoria Gotti

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V. S. Pritchett

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Bertrand Russell

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe