Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Character
• Horse
• Prodigious
• Untractable

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• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

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• You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.

  

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• I'm a little angry in life.

  

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• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

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• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

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• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

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• I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

  

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• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

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• Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

  

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• The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

  

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• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

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• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

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• Let's have some new cliches.

  

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• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

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• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

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• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  

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• Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

  

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• Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

  

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• A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

  

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• How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.

  

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• He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Character
  • Horse
  • Prodigious