Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Yes, Heaven is thine; but thisIs a world of sweets and sours;Our flowers are merely-flowers.Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes to Explore
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis -
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Walter Scott -
You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
Eddie Marsan -
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm X -
When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
Ralph Brown
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner -
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt -
I want to have a long career.
Haley Bennett -
I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
Natalie Wood
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
R. Kelly -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
Sam Jaeger -
I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
Dan Byrd -
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
Dan Pink -
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow
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Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
Gene Spafford -
It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
Adam Brody -
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?
Lactantius -
Yes, Heaven is thine; but thisIs a world of sweets and sours;Our flowers are merely-flowers.
Edgar Allan Poe