Edgar Allen Po Quotes

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe. ~ Drew Daywalt

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his. ~ Ray Bradbury

We've all lost something along the way. ~ Po Bronson

And the rule still holds true: more diversity translates into more division between students. ~ Po Bronson

Merry Christmas to all, and y'all sleep tight. ~ Po Bronson

Here it is
right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it. ~ Huang Po

I am not a fighter, but I will fight for who I love ~ Caity Po

All things are like spring dreams, passing with no trace. ~ Su Tung-po

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon ~ Po Bronson

Might our culture-wide perception of what it means to be a teenager be unwittingly skewed by the fact they don't get enough sleep? ~ Po Bronson

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines. ~ Po Bronson

The more controlling the parent," Caldwell explained, "the more likely a child is to experience boredom. ~ Po Bronson

Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself. ~ Po Bronson

Your true Zen nature can never be gained or lost. It is what you are. ~ Huang Po & Thomas E Uharriet

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me. ~ Po Bronson

Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in. ~ Po Bronson

When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal, and the art of the insult. ~ Po Bronson

Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of 'A Liberated One'. ~ Huang Po

Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure. ~ Po Bronson

We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you. ~ Po Bronson

I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue.
"Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up. ~ Kristin Cashore

The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about. ~ Po Bronson

Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own. ~ Kristin Cashore

The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games. ~ Po Bronson

Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression. ~ Po Bronson

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile - an idiot. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust ~ Po Bronson

When someone, anyone! Black, white, red, yellow, brown. Anybody! Disrespects you, get right on their ass, and stay there until somebody pulls you off. That's how you get respect, and teach people not to fuck with you at the same time. ~ Po Sally

Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed. ~ Jun Po Roshi

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

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely. ~ Kristin Cashore

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great. ~ Po Bronson

You are a sad, strage little man. ~ Tim Allen

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator. ~ Bernie Mac

A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Go ahead - walk into the propeller. ~ Woody Allen

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven! ~ Allen Ginsberg

Son of a bitch! You're Steve Allen! ~ Steve Allen

Stress and striving always color your art in unintended ways. ~ Allen Arnold

Beautiful, funny, smart, sexual, and also neurotic? It's like filling an inside straight. ~ Woody Allen

They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, "Po-ork," with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, "Po-ork?" When nothing materialized, she yelled, "Pork! ~ Harper Lee

All we see or seem is but a dream within a dream...," Edgar Allan Poe ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The dead cannot give orders; they can only whisper. ~ Edgar Cantero

I would like to be famous but unknown. ~ Edgar Degas

Even in front of nature one must compose. ~ Edgar Degas

Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust. ~ Edgar Saltus

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history. ~ J. Edgar Hoover

For resentments of any nature bring their fruit in the physical. ~ Edgar Cayce

Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don't be a talker. ~ Po Bronson

Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval. ~ Edgar Wallace

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss. ~ Po Bronson

Did you ever try to pray for somebody? That their lives might be changed? ~ Edgar Cayce

His face was knotted with rage. He felt like fainting but couldn't remember the proper way to fall. ~ Woody Allen

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate. ~ Huang Po

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films. ~ Abbas Kiarostami

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member. ~ Woody Allen

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Work is a four-letter word that ends with "K. ~ Donald Allen Kirch

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. ~ Woody Allen

Have been sufficient to establish its real character. Indeed, however ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think. ~ Edgar Johnson

I had done a deed - what was it? ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia ~ Edgar Allan Poe

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon. ~ Edgar Magnin

No woman could have inflicted the blows with any weapon. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

For the soul, understand, is itself the whole world. ~ Edgar Maass

Premonitions of becomings, of joy and apotheosis bore me laughing through my days. ~ Edgar Oliver

Reaching out to her is like drinking from a memory. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles. ~ Edgar Smith

would a madman have been so wise as this? ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken. ~ Edgar A. Guest

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore ... ~ Edgar Allan Poe

There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. ~ Edgar Cayce

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust ~ Edgar Allan Poe

O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave? ~ Edgar Allan Poe

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life. ~ Edgar Lee Masters

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor) ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul," concluded Tarzan, ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

But the memory of past sorrow
is it not present joy? ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Death is only passing through God's other door. ~ Edgar Cayce

"What?" The italics just flew out past the alcohol's guard. ~ Edgar Cantero

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

These were the days when my heart was volcanic. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

There is something about Death
Like love itself! ~ Edgar Lee Masters

enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Luchesi cannot tell amontillado from a sherry ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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

Learn to Control your emotions or they will control you, ~ Edgar Martinez

Edgar: Raven, can you think of any girl's name I would call out in my sleep?
Raven: Yes.
Edgar: Well, lets hear it then.
Raven: Shall I go in alphabetical order?
Edgar: On second thought, maybe not. ~ Mizue Tani

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

What you need is a good Hoovering. ~ J. Edgar Hoover

For all we live to know is known. ~ Edgar Allan Poe