Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

Topics

FaithGreatFriendsSelf-Confidence

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

Jennifer Lopez

FoodKitchenKnowWayMeatRice

It's always important to try and get a real sense of the world around my characters. I especially think it helps actors.

Andrew Haigh

WorldThinkImportantTryRealGet

To me, music is a luminous experience. Whenever I'm immersed in it, life lights up for me, no matter what else is going on.

Anat Cohen

LifeMusicExperienceMeLightsUp

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

John Lanchester

GreatPeopleBehaviorPhoneNothing

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

Maurizio Cattelan

LifeDieEverythingPointSenseOur

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

Amanda Seales

FunnyWomanAngryBlackFighting

If you think a child is going to be your accessory... it's not like a micro pig. It's not about putting them in front of the television. You need to read to them at night.

Tori Amos

ChildNightThinkYouPigNeed

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Rodney Stark

SocietyReligiousDistributionTastes

Part of the reason I wanted to write a novel was that in fiction I could do something that's difficult to do in real life, which is to dwell on the stark details of the experience without really needing to create that narrative of redemption.

Christina Baker Kline

LifeExperienceDetailsCreateDwell

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

Peter Billingsley

BestCreativeIdeasWinThinkYou

I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

Tom Baker

HomeChildrenTimeHatAlwaysUsed

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

Tina Brown

FairTakeMayMassesBeenObserver

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