Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

Sufjan Stevens

So I'm a little worried about that though I know I don't have to worry about these things in the way, I don't know, that Cher has to worry about it.

William Shakespeare

She was a vixen when she went to school:And though she be but little, she is fierce.

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

Bob Ehrlich

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Tony Scott

We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.

It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't.

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Cormac McCarthy

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

Will Rogers

Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.

There are a lot of thoughts right now on what we can do. There's just not as much manpower.

Confucius

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

Dallas Willard

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.

Emma Forrest

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

Thomas Moore

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

Alex Berenson

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

Bob Sheppard

I played baseball as a left-handed first baseman, though never as well as I did quarterbacking.

Richard Dawkins

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

William Shakespeare

Though he is small, he is but fierce.

You have welcomed me home, even though I'm here as a refugee,

Kirsten Dunst

I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Ina Garten

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Become the world's most thoughtful friend.