Edgar Allen Quotes

#1. The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

#2. It was horrible and senseless, and I now felt the sudden need to drink scotch, brood, and read Edgar Allen Poe or the ending to Hamlet. Maybe I would top it all off with some YouTube videos of drowning kittens while listening to Radiohead.

Penny Reid

#3. I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me.

Dario Argento

#4. To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable - like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Mark Twain

#5. I picked up my volume of Collected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe. I sprawled across the bed and flipped through the pages until I came to one of my favorite short stories: "The Oval Portrait.

Crystal Smith Gordon

#6. I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

Drew Daywalt

#7. Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

Ray Bradbury

#8. Love this in the film, "Velvet Goldmine" it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

Anna Sui

#9. Poe isn't for everyone. He's too heady a draught for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on one of the most important ones: read him aloud

Neil Gaiman

#10. That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.

Emily Giffin

#11. Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.

Brian Regan

#12. You must remember that I am descended from the Northumberland Ballingers, not the Hampshire Ballingers. The women of my side of the family do not care a great deal for Society's rules.

Amanda Quick

#13. Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

Socrates

#14. Without worship, we go about miserable.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#15. If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Bill Maher

#16. There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

Mitch Horowitz