Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Man
  • Blood
  • Iron

• I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Win
  • My Life

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

  

  Ed Walsh
  • Remember
  • I Remember
  • Strike

• Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Up
  • Together
  • True

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Write

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Up
  • Together
  • Learning

• I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • World
  • Generation

• I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Music
  • School
  • Style

• If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the country has been weakened. Due to this, the danger from outside increases. The country has to pay a big price due to this type of weakness.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • Country
  • History

• I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know if I was stoned or straight... All these songs together, one after another made my head spin. It made me want to gasp. It was like the land parted.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Together

• En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!

  

  Augustus

• My week beats your year.

  

  Lou Reed

• Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Important
  • Desire
  • Passion

• There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Enemy
  • Believes
  • Attempt

• If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

  

  Josefina Vazquez Mota
  • Life

• all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Reason
  • Animal
  • Able

• And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe