Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Fashion
  • Market
  • Capitalism

• I'm not a very fast-paced person.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Person
  • Very
  • Fast-Paced

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Power
  • Want
  • Stronger

• How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Thoughts
  • More
  • Furniture

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Find

• Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Down
  • Generation

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Different
  • Myself

• One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Power
  • Right
  • Taught

• A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Right
  • Someone

• Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Idea
  • Doing
  • Nobody

• When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Good

• You see something faraway & it looks beautiful & very seductive; but as you go closer you realize it's actually bugs crawling over a corpse.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Beautiful
  • Seductive

• Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Experience
  • Bitter

• I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Battle
  • I Believe In
  • English Rulers

• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Believe
  • She
  • Responsibility

• I am not in exile.

  

  Chen Guangcheng

• For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Fighting
  • Injustice
  • Inequality

• Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe