Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Great
  • Hilarious
  • Jacket

• No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Man
  • Pleasures
  • Sane

• Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Kid
  • Prove
  • Comeback

• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Madness
  • Sane

• If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • God
  • Ifs

• My friends and I are crazy. That's the only thing that keeps us sane!

  

  Billy Joel
  • Friends
  • Crazy
  • Sane

• She had such a young sense of humor. Every single thing that went wrong or was funny for any reason, she laughed herself stupid about it -- it kept us all sane.

  

  Prince William
  • She
  • Funny
  • Single

• Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Action
  • Denial
  • Sane

• Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

  

  will.i.am
  • Mind
  • Therapy
  • Fragile

• A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Feelings
  • Poet
  • Sane

• There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Woman
  • Jacket

• Working with my hands keeps me sane.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • Hands
  • Sane

• I'm married to a Canadian so I have a lot of fond thoughts about Canada. I think about the prairies of Manitoba, where my wife is from, and I have a lot of friends and relatives on both coasts and have spent a lot time in Canada from Nova Scotia to B.C. In some ways, it's a much more sane country than the U.S.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Country
  • Wife
  • Thoughts

• In a mad world, it is the mad who are sane.

  

  Craig Nicholls
  • World
  • Mad
  • Sane

• Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Laughing

• There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Crazy
  • Missions
  • Sane

• I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Crazy
  • Sane

• The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Want
  • Actors
  • Use

• I'm just free. And I can express my sensuality. I can express my pain, vulnerability, my strength. All of those things. Because I had a sheltered upbringing doesn't mean I haven't been a woman. I'm a woman that has had life experiences.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Free
  • Pain

• Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Power
  • Soul

• I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Intelligent
  • Laughing
  • Point Of View

• Jesus said whatever you do to the least of these my brothers you've done it to me. And this is what I've come to think. That if I want to identify fully with Jesus Christ, who I claim to be my Savior and Lord, the best way that I can do that is to identify with the poor. This I know will go against the teachings of all the popular evangelical preachers. But they're just wrong. They're not bad, they're just wrong. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken-hearted.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Thinking
  • Jesus
  • Brother

• When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sane
  • Madman
  • Jacket