Top 62 Allan Coe Quotes
#2. My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little ... I think that's where the tie comes from.
Gary Allan
#3. There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe
#4. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
#5. It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.
Allan Gurganus
#6. You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.
Allan Houston
#7. The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
Edgar Allan Poe
#8. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...
Allan Kaprow
#10. Only the weak of heart threaten those who cannot fight back, Angor of Doeth Palas, he said.
Allan Frewin Jones
#11. The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
#12. Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
Allan Kaprow
#13. I grew up in Bellport, Long Island where I attended Gateway Acting School and met Robin Allan. She was the school's director who took me under her wing and was the one who told me that I could do this for real.
Brendan Dooling
#15. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.
Edgar Allan Poe
#16. Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
David Allan Coe
#17. Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
Allan Gurganus
#18. Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
David Allan Coe
#19. I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
David Allan Coe
#20. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe
#21. Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
David Allan Coe
#22. I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.
David Allan Coe
#23. You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister;
The whole world called me 'Hank'!
David Allan Coe
#24. Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.
David Allan Coe
#26. I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.
David Allan Coe
#27. 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
#28. The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.
David Allan Coe
#29. All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
David Allan Coe
#30. One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
David Allan Coe
#31. Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
Allan Savory
#32. There's a kind of ear music ... a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
Allan Gurganus
#33. Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
Allan Houston
#34. Ear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe
#35. all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea - In her tomb by the side of the sea.
Edgar Allan Poe
#36. Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
Allan Dare Pearce
#37. I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.
Allan Carr
#38. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.
Allan Dare Pearce
#40. I have learned that the first step to letting go is to accept the facts.
Abeer Allan
#42. My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.
Allan Dare Pearce
#43. The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.
Allan Ray
#45. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore.
Edgar Allan Poe
#46. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
Edgar Allan Poe
#47. All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova
Allan Sandage
#48. I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.
Allan Sherman
#50. The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
Edgar Allan Poe
#51. If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#52. But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic
Allan Bloom
#53. Think the unthinkable,
Imagine the impossible
Pursue the imaginations limits.
Allan Weisbecker
#54. The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Allan Bloom
#55. As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract.
Edgar Allan Poe
#56. Thine image and--a name--a name!
Two separate--yet most intimate things.
Edgar Allan Poe
#57. I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
Allan Gurganus
#58. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.
Richard Ronald Allan
#59. I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
Andy Richter
#60. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
David Allan Coe
#61. You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan
#62. His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.
Edgar Allan Poe
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