Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Theatre
  • Collaboration

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • Lies
  • Hollywood

• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Yoga
  • Perfectionist

• I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Saying

• I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • World
  • Want
  • Problems

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Up

• I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Heart
  • Needs
  • Flower

• Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.

  

  Danny Thomas
  • Success
  • Lies
  • Lying

• Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

  

  Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Soul
  • Hand
  • Taken

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Time
  • Persons
  • Leisure

• I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

  

  Bret Michael Sychak Poison
  • New York
  • Performing
  • I Love It

• Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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