Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.
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People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
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The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
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Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.
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I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I've done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed.
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise.
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I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.
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My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.
