Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
-
Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
-
There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
-
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
-
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
-
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
-
The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
-
I've been with my husband and friends for so long, I've forgotten what is unappealing to new people.
-
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
-
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
-
Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
-
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
-
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
-
I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
-
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
-
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
-
I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.
-
I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
-
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
-
Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
-
The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
-
If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.
