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

• 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

• 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

• The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World

• When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • History
  • Stock

• I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out.

  

  Lisa Snowdon

• 'The gods are on the side of the stronger,' according to Tacitus. The prophets proclaimed that the heart of God is on the side of the weaker. God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor, for the widow and the orphan.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Heart

• The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Life
  • Personality

• To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Principles
  • Motion
  • Derive

• Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Insecurity

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

  

  Edgar Allan Poe