Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Friend
• Purpose
• Criticism
• Bold

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Art
  • Help

• I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Love
  • Feel

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • God
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Model
  • Islam
  • Follow

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Look

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Audience
  • See

• I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Great
  • Business
  • Dollar

• I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Think
  • Single

• I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Free
  • Education
  • Greed

• I had a shih tzu dog for 12 years - we were different in size but he was certainly man's best friend, he was my little guy.

  

  Brian Baumgartner
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Friend

• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Why
  • Community
  • Friend

• To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Real
  • Done
  • Pretty

• Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Army
  • Uniforms

• In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Friend
  • Purpose
  • Criticism