Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Edgar Allan Poe

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• I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Always
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• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
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• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
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• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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  • Kill

• I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

  

  Larry Wall
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  • Fighting
  • Ignore

• I’m very lucky. I have terrific parents, but some kids have a really rotten time growing up and we should do all that we can to make their lives happier and more secure.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• If people see that I'm fully committed to my chosen charities and fully engaged in their issues, maybe they'll click a link to find out more.

  

  David Harewood
  • People

• I come from big families. My momma was the oldest of three and my daddy was one of six - and I've always loved children. They bring a lot of joy to the world and they make us adults look at things in a better way.

  

  Josh Turner
  • World
  • Children
  • Joy

• If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Job

• I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'

  

  Carol Kane
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

  

  Friedrich List
  • Alone
  • Fall
  • Suicide

• Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.

  

  David Packard
  • Important
  • Marketing

• You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Great
  • Fly

• Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.

  

  Janna Levin
  • Black
  • Sun

• Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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• The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is... you never have an empty page in front of you.

  

  Ann Maxwell
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  • Bad

• Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Country
  • Girl

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• Look, we all know how hard it is for us to - I'm going to speak for myself - find a still photo of yourself that you like. Like how many times do people send photos and you're like, "Oh burn it."

  

  William Mapother
  • People
  • Speak
  • Looks

• Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long Ago
  • Hobbit
  • Pocket-handkerchief

• I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Blackguard
  • Pocket-handkerchief