Top 100 Quotes About Allan
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
Allan Dare Pearce
#6. I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.
Allan Carr
#7. 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
#9. I have learned that the first step to letting go is to accept the facts.
Abeer Allan
#11. 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
#12. The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.
Allan Ray
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova
Allan Sandage
#17. There's a kind of ear music ... a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.
Allan Gurganus
#19. The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
Edgar Allan Poe
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Think the unthinkable,
Imagine the impossible
Pursue the imaginations limits.
Allan Weisbecker
#23. And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the fables of sorrow, and weariness, and disgust with mankind, and a longing after solitude.
Edgar Allan Poe
#24. The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Allan Bloom
#25. 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
#26. Thine image and--a name--a name!
Two separate--yet most intimate things.
Edgar Allan Poe
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
Andy Richter
#30. If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
David Allan Coe
#31. You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan
#32. His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.
Edgar Allan Poe
#33. Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
Allan Gurganus
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
Edgar Allan Poe
#40. 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
#42. Only the weak of heart threaten those who cannot fight back, Angor of Doeth Palas, he said.
Allan Frewin Jones
#43. 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
#44. Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
Allan Kaprow
#45. 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
#47. 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
#48. But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.
Edgar Allan Poe
#49. The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)
Edgar Allan Poe
#50. I don't believe in science. Science is our defense against belief.
J. Allan Hobson
#52. A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
Edgar Allan Poe
#53. Come meet my dog."
"What's the dog's name?"
"Justice."
"Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.
Allan Dare Pearce
#54. Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom
#55. To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.
Allan Pease
#56. Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.
Mervyn Peake
#57. Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include a vampire tale by Edgar Allan Poe. But the sad answer is that Poe never penned a vampire story.
Andrew Barger
#58. Art was, for Poe, the only method by which one could penetrate the shapeless empirical world in the search for order, and
Edgar Allan Poe
#59. If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.
Edgar Allan Poe
#61. I had gotten a taste for death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization.
Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
#62. The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.
Edgar Allan Poe
#63. Allan had never imagined it would be easy to cross the Himalayas. But later he had realised just how lucky he had been to bump into those kind Iranian communists. It
Jonas Jonasson
#65. And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring, as token
That I am happy now!
Edgar Allan Poe
#66. I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!
Allan Sloan
#67. The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.
Edgar Allan Poe
#68. Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
Andrew Vachss
#69. The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,
a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.
Edgar Allan Poe
#70. People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
Allan Gregg
#71. You call it hope - that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
#72. In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed.
Allan Sherman
#73. Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
Allan Gurganus
#74. History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Allan Nevins
#75. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
#76. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency
the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom
#77. It is a happiness to wonder;
it is a happiness to dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
#78. Watch my sword, not my face!'he said. 'I'm going to stab you, not bite you!
Allan Frewin Jones
#79. But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan
Allan Heinberg
#80. I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
Edgar Allan Poe
#81. The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.
Allan Lokos
#82. Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?
Allan Dare Pearce
#83. The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
Allan Bloom
#84. A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
Allan Beck
#85. I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.
L.M. Montgomery
#86. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe
#87. We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.
Allan Lokos
#88. The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
Allan Bloom
#89. The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
Edgar Allan Poe
#90. advanced socialbot software, a program to create and operate fake profiles that looked and acted like real people on Circles. Socialbots were designed to befriend real Circles users and dupe them into divulging their sensitive personal and financial information.
Scott Allan Morrison
#91. Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.
Allan Sekula
#92. Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears [ ... ]
Edgar Allan Poe
#93. There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.
Edgar Allan Poe
#94. But keep at it, the season is short and you won't get to hunt again until next year, so hunt hard everyday. The luckiest people are those that work the hardest.
Dan Allan
#95. I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
#96. The venerable teachers, philosophers & spiritual practitioners throughout history have concluded that the greatest happiness we can experience comes from the development of an open, loving heart.
Allan Lokos
#97. Observe & accept what ever arises & know that everything is as it needs to be.
Allan Lokos
#98. People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.
Allan Savory
#99. The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
Allan Bloom
#100. Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
Allan Lokos
