Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Live
  • Why
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• My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Love
  • Business
  • Respect

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • She
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• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Unseen

• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Process

• For a building that is supposedly a symbol of love, it has generated a lot of anger. Or rather, some people have been angered by what others have said about it, and have felt called on to defend its honour.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People

• Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Done

• What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.

  

  Karl Marx

• The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

  

  Vernor Vinge

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • World

• Donald Trump is the greatest deal maker in the history of our country.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Country
  • History
  • Trump

• Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

  

  Matt Damon
  • Interesting

• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Plan

• Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • Soul
  • Desire

• If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Opinions
  • Influenced

• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Power
  • Light
  • Air

• All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Desire
  • Suffering
  • Attachment