Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist...

Edgar Allan Poe

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• You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Judgment

• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Present

• Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • God
  • Children
  • Help

• No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • You
  • Inspired
  • Matter

• I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Book
  • Happy
  • College

• I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Crazy
  • Did
  • Romeo And Juliet

• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Work
  • Boy
  • Talent

• Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Hope

• Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Beauty

• When ordinary people have a say in their own future, then your land can’t just be taken away from you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Future
  • Taken

• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,As the flames rose to her Roman noseAnd her Walkman started to melt...

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Rose

• I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Black
  • Hate

• I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Free

• Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • Desire

• I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I was always much impressed, in reading prison memoirs of revolutionists, such as Lenin and Trotsky … by the amount of reading they did, the languages they studied, the range of their plans for a better social order. (Or rather, for a new social order.) In the Acts of the Apostles there are constant references to the Way and the New Man.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Reading

• What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here.

  

  Mark Richardson
  • Right
  • Nothing
  • Ahead

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Think
  • Moral
  • Animals

• When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People

• I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

  

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  • Facts
  • Journalist
  • Occur

• The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist...

  

  Edgar Allan Poe