Top 148 Edgar Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.
Edgar had a heart attack, and I'm to blame. We were making love, and I took the bag off my head.
I played at White Hart Lane against Michael Carrick and Edgar Davids when I was 18.
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.
I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.
Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.
Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.
Detective fiction could not have existed without 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.
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.
I asked for a tough fight, and I'm very excited to fight such a good fighter and a former champion like Frankie Edgar.
I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision
I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.
My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.
[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.
Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.
One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of eccentricities. We couldn't even fit all his eccentricities into [ the same named] movie.
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
I fight guys that no one has ever heard of; I fought guys who are legends, like Frankie Edgar.
J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and purple flowers - and there's a raven statue.
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.
Choosing between day and night. Edgar and Heathcliff.
BEFORE THERE WAS BILLY COLLINS & TED KOOSER, THERE WAS EDGAR GUEST
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.
I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.
I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.
Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading, it feels so honest.
I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings
How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.
If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
