Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.Edgar Allan Poe
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
Ted Nugent -
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman -
The real demon in my life is my father.
David Lagercrantz -
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille -
Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
Jim Butcher
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Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap-though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.
Jim Butcher -
I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.
Ashley Greene -
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
George Packer -
I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides.
Keanu Reeves -
I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, "Oh, wow! I can't wait.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.
Dalai Lama
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
Vance Havner -
Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.
P. C. Cast -
I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.
P. C. Cast -
Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
John Stuart Mill -
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
Francis Bacon -
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
Warren Farrell -
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
D. H. Lawrence -
Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
Jaden Smith -
My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
Edgar Allan Poe