Allan Lockheed Quotes

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New Hampshire antiques barn when something caught his eye. Beneath texts on fertilizers and farm machines lay a slim, worn pamphlet with tea-colored paper covers, titled Tamerlane and Other Poems, by an unnamed author identified simply as "a Bostonian." He was fairly certain he had found something exceptional, paid the $15 price, and headed home, where Tamerlane would spend only one night. The next day, he contacted Sotheby's, and they confirmed his suspicion that he had just made one of the most exciting book discoveries in years. The pamphlet was a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first text, written when he was only fourteen years old, a find that fortune-seeking collectors have imagined happening upon probably more than they'd like to admit. The humble-looking, forty-page pamphlet was published in 1827 by Calvin F.S. Thomas, a relatively unknown Boston printer who specialized in apothecary labels, and its original price was about twelve cents. But this copy, looking good for its 161 years, most of which were probably spent languishing in one dusty attic box after another, would soon be auctioned for a staggering $198,000. ~ Allison Hoover Bartlett

We are surely doomed to hover continually upon the brink of Eternity, without taking the final plunge into the abyss. From billows a thousand times more stupendous than any I have ever seen, we glide away with the facility of the arrowy seagull; and the colossal waters rear their heads above us like demons of the deep, but like demons confined to simple threats and forbidden to destroy. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out! ~ Allan Rock

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic. ~ Allan Savory

A sharp spear needs no polish. ~ H. Rider Haggard

You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Now doesn't it just astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And you are doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it? ~ Allan Watts

The best things in life make you sweaty. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings. ~ Allan Lokos

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward. ~ Allan Gurganus

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is 'Daddy.' Abba is the intimate word of a family circle where that obedient reverence was at the heart of the relationship, whereas Daddy is the familiar word of a family circle from which all thoughts of reverence and obedience have largely disappeared … The best English translation of Abba is simply 'Dear Father. ~ Thomas Allan Smail

...but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin. ~ Allan Pinkerton

Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen ME. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Inside my head, I shit my pants. ~ Max Allan Collins

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe. ~ John Lennon

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness. ~ Allan Lokos

A clock is the only instrument specifically constructed for measuring a quantity that is intangible. ~ Nina Allan

I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one. ~ Gary Allan

Aoibheann ("Who on earth could pronounce that? ~ Claire Allan

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles. ~ Allan Gurganus

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another
filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones. ~ Max Allan Collins

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it. ~ Gary Allan

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love ~ Allan Bloom