Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;-- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Day

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • Freedom

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Political
  • Party
  • Politics

• I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Broken
  • Working

• The only people that should vote should be legal.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Vote
  • Legal

• As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Height

• For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • Money
  • Future
  • Government

• I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Real
  • Very
  • Implications

• I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Period
  • Recording
  • Disco

• Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Moral

• The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Change
  • Present

• The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Youth

• I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Early
  • Page

• The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Art

• Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

  

  James Salter
  • Book
  • Past
  • Earth

• You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• True beauty is a ray. That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

  

  Rumi
  • True
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• For so many people, it's very hard to feel okay with success, because success is not cool. It supposedly tarnishes your thing; it ruins little pockets of scenes and the self-importance that comes from thinking you're the only people in your town that are doing something.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Because

• Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Power
  • Help

• It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;-- And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe