Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.

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• I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

  

  Eden Sher
  • People
  • Sound
  • Youth

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Great
  • Different
  • School

• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • You

• Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Culture
  • Fear

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

  

  Zendaya
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Old

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Mortician

• The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Class
  • Struggles

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Goal
  • Acting

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.

  

  Kaki King
  • Done
  • Know
  • Guitar

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Film
  • Goal
  • Grows

• Conditional love is love that is turned off and on....Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that pleases them. "I love you, honey, for cleaning your room!" Children who think they need to earn love become people pleasers, or perfectionists. Those who are raised on conditional love never really feel loved.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Children
  • Love
  • Parents

• As many times as HIV changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Hate
  • Body
  • Clothes

• I'm definitely more of a makeup person than a skincare person. I'd love someone to teach me exactly what to do with my skin, but then again, I am also lazy.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Makeup
  • Lazy

• When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Shoulders
  • Biceps

• Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Music
  • Poetry