Purloined Letter Quotes

#1. What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.

Vincent Buranelli

#2. Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.

Jacques Lacan

#3. Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

Robert Boyle

#4. Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

Bridget Carpenter

#5. People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

Jack Canfield

#6. I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Rita Rudner

#7. All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

Action Bronson

#8. Before she landed, Ms Clinton publicly downplayed the importance of human rights. At a press conference ahead of leaving, she beamingly implored the Chinese government to keep buying US debt, like a travelling saleswoman hawking a bill of goods.

Richard McGregor

#9. I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.

Sara Paxton

#10. I am the kind of broken they can't fix. I am no longer the same little girl they loved.

Maggi Myers

#11. For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

Peter McWilliams

#12. I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

Jennifer Coolidge