Quotes of: Poe Keyword

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

Howard Rheingold

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Howard Rheingold

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Howard Rheingold

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Howard Rheingold

People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.

Howard Rheingold

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Howard Rheingold

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Howard Rheingold

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Irving Layton

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Jacob Bronowski

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Jacob Bronowski

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Joanna Baillie

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

Julianna Baggott

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

Julianna Baggott

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

Julianna Baggott

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.

Joë Bousquet

Devise some creed, and live it, beyond theirs, Or I shall think you but their spendthrift heirs.

Edmund Blunden

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Emily Dickinson