Quotes of: Poe Keyword

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

P. L. Travers

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

Rupert Everett

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Stanislav Grof

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

Seth MacFarlane

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Edwin Way Teale

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frank Norris

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

George William Russell

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

H. P. Lovecraft

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

Isla Fisher

The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

June Jordan

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.

Julianne Moore

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

John Ruskin

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robert Browning

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Thornton Wilder