Edward Wren Quotes

Curse my clumsy tongue," Wren said, raising a glass in a mocking salute.

Nicholas raised his own. "Thankfully, you have a sparkling imagination to make up for it. ~ Alexandra Bracken

The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion. ~ Edward L. Bernays

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in. ~ Edward Teller

Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief benefit of wealth: the consciousness of having enough. ~ Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky

I pulled out a large white T-shirt with black gothic script that read, "Equipe Edward"
"Adele, how many times do I have to tell you?" he said in a very serious tone. "Vampires do not sparkle."
"Okay, fine." I pretended to pout. "I'll give it to someone else."
"No, you will not!" He yanked the T-shirt out of my reach. "Sparkles or not, I am still Team Edward. ~ Alys Arden

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose. ~ Edward Abbey

We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about ~ Edward N. Luttwak

This is the theory ... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating. ~ Edward Gorey

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings. ~ Edward Hirsch

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. ~ Edward T. Hall

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him ... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise.
I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him. ~ Philippa Gregory

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The moon. The moon. They danced by the light of the moon. ~ Edward Lear

Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pack,
Her lungs first turned black,
And eventually rotted away. ~ Edward Gorey

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn. ~ Edward Coke

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. ~ Edward Dahlberg

Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours. ~ Edward Bouverie Pusey

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines. ~ Edward Dmytryk

How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so others will take notice of your art? When I was first trying to get noticed, all of these questions went through my mind. After a lot of trial of error and a lot of reading, I began to understand the world of public relations. ~ Mark Edward

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you. ~ Edward Hirsch

Home. Let me come home. Home is whenever I'm with you. ~ Edward Sharpe

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition. ~ Edward Norton

If your tank battalion has the choice of a good highway or a bad road, take the bad road ~ Edward N. Luttwak

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such knowledge is inherently vulnerable to scrutiny; the object is a 'fact' which, if it develops, changes, or otherwise transforms itself in the way that civilizations frequently do, nevertheless is fundamentally, even ontologically stable. To have such knowledge of such a thing is to dominate it, to have authority over it. ~ Edward Said

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache. ~ Edward Hoagland

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. ~ Edward Norton Lorenz

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon? ~ Edward Abbey

The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down. ~ Edward Said