Maud Allan Quotes

It was perfectly instinctive. I knew if I said I was a dancer he'd have made certain assumptions. I've been receiving this response more and more from men. They look me up and down as if they're looking straight through my clothes and it makes my heart beat with rage. ~ Wendy Buonaventura

Some human memories and tearful lore, Render him terrorless: his name's No More. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

A woman being never at a loss ... the devil always sticks by them. ~ George Gordon Byron

Lord help my poor soul. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Your ability to accomplish greater things in your life is infinite. ~ Allan Sparkes

He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.
'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall. ~ Norman Lock

I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Here, at last, he is happy. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

In the tale proper
where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident
mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Conrad glared at him coldly. Jed could detect no human feeling or care or empathy coming from the man. This was a man who did everything by the book, and it was obvious that he didn't let anything - emotions, mercy, kindness - affect his decisions. ~ Jay Allan

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied. ~ Allan Pease

After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I believe you get up in the morning and do the best you can. ~ Allan Dare Pearce

For her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore ~ Edgar Allan Poe

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery. ~ Allan Houston

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way. ~ Eden Robinson

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know. ~ David Allan Coe

There are already laws prohibiting the promotion of hatred and we are now considering new laws to establish limits on the use of the Internet and other forms of communication in a way that might be harmful to us all. ~ Allan Rock

We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence - the condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life - and ~ Edgar Allan Poe

The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific tunnel, whose interior, as far as the eye could fathom it, was a smooth, shining, and jet black wall of water, inclined to the horizon at an angle of some forty-five degrees, speeding dizzily round and round with a swaying and sweltering motion, and sending forth to the winds an appalling voice, half shriek, half roar, such as not even the mighty cataract of Niagara ever lifts up in its agony to Heaven. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character. ~ Allan Boesak

People who don't exercise their freedom of voting (choosing their leaders) are irresponsible. Such people have no right to complain or want more than what they are receiving from the government. Intentional failure to vote is cowardly, irresponsible and a sign of ignorance. ~ Allan Amanyire

a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a ~ Edgar Allan Poe

My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and write. So for about twenty years I wrote for a particular man, who criticized and praised me and made me feel I was indeed "special." The obverse side of this, of course, was that I tried for a long time to please him, or rather, not to displease him. And then of course there were other men - writers, teachers - the Man, who was not a terror or a dream but a literary master and a master in other ways less easy to acknowledge. And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. These women were almost always beautiful, but threatened with the loss of beauty, the loss of youth - the fate worse than death. Or, they were beautiful and died young, like Lucy and Lenore. Or, the woman was like Maud Gonne, cruel and disastrously mistaken, and the poem reproached her because she had refused to become a luxury for the poet. ~ Adrienne Rich

The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh. ~ Alex Pareene

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil ... my next The Opposite Of Magic. ~ Ivan Stoikov

The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

You want coffees with your Happy Meals?
Yes, we want coffee with our Happy Meals. It makes them more happy. ~ Allan Wolf

Her great resentment was that she had had no education. When she was seventeen, she had announced that she was going to university - whereupon everyone had laughed at her. It turned out that you had to come from a good school, and pass examinations, before they would let you in. Maud had never been to school, and even though she could discuss politics with the great men of the land, a succession of governesses and tutors had completely failed to equip her to pass any sort of exam. She had cried and raged for days, and even now thinking about it could still put her in a foul mood. This was what made her a suffragette: she knew girls would never get a decent education until women had the vote. ~ Ken Follett

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife ... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated. ~ Allan Savory

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