Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

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• I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Always
  • Diary

• What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Know
  • Rest

• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Back
  • Take

• One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Problem
  • Depression
  • Saturday

• The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Rights

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

  

  Ted Lange
  • People
  • Job
  • Light

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Poet

• If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Son
  • Cat
  • Pictures

• IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Think
  • Modern

• Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Parents
  • Change
  • Gay

• In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • True
  • Death

• Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Live
  • Why

• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Name
  • Lips
  • Passed