Quotes of: Poe Keyword

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

Braided Creek

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

The Bookshop

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.

Bellwether

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

Bellwether

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;

Brains: A Zombie Memoir

I’ll wait for you,” he said as his hand dropped to his side, as his eyes began to dim. “I think I could wait for you forever.

Burn

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

The Bean Trees, With Related Readings

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.

The Bridges

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Alice Walker

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

Bernard Werber

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Edith Wharton

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

Paula Danziger

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Annie Dillard

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.

Athol Fugard

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Comte de Lautreamont

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

Ravi Zacharias