Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FaithManHappyWiseThinkHumanity

I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists.

Matt Groening

LoveRelationshipLove IsEndHell

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

Michael Gambon

GenerationTelevisionUpPlaysDried

I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!

Stromae

MusicDanceCrazyWantHip-HopRap

In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.

Rithy Panh

PastDesireTestifyFilms

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

Rupert Murdoch

BeginningGivingNewsWantReason

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

Michael Mosley

ThinkComedyDramaLineFine

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

Misty Copeland

BeautyRespectExperiencePeople

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

Louie Gohmert

FutureGodFeelHelpPrepareThings

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

Josh Homme

WorkGoodMyselfPeopleThinkDown

I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil - just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.

Jonathan Franklin

BestRedMotorcycleWorldGunYou

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

Demian Bichir

GoodBelieveBadI BelieveMixBoth

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

Chuck D

MoneyControlOverLabelsMajorAny

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