He was a painter. He was a laid-back, free spirit. Didn't a whole lot get to him. For the last two or three months he kept saying he wanted to go back to Tennessee, where he was from.
Edward Goswick
Related Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old things and I picked up that arrowhead in tears, that broken point ... LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re... HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin... HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act. HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods. HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ... HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today. HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties. HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university. HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have... HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w... HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined. HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required. HE CHANGCHUI It was kind of frustrating watching him bring his team back into it. He was doing a lot of moving an... ARRON AFFLALO Aden and Avery are walking short distances. But Ajay is the laid back one. He was the last to crawl.... APRIL SIX That really held him back, but he's a fighter so he kept playing but he was in pain the whole time. ... LOREN JACULA He's using the whole field. Last year he was primarily pull -- when he did things he was pulling the... JOHN GIBBONS When he came in he hadn't done anything for two and half months, so for the first week he was with u... LAWRIE MCKINNA He's had a tender back, but he said he was good to go. I kind of wanted to just use him a couple of ... MARK STALKER Mrs. Rutledge told me that in those last two or three weeks of his illness, he was failing, but he w... FRANK DAVIS He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him ou... BOB COLE I'd say he was just a man on a mission all year. He wanted to get back to that championship match, a... JASON EMMONS Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his... URSULA K. LE GUIN He looked like like he was still favoring it a little bit this morning when he was out on the floor.... BRIAN HILL He never really hurt me with his shots because he is not a big puncher. But he is a brilliant boxer.... ALEX ARTHUR I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball sea... LINDA WATSON Clive was the man who had won a World Cup, he had the experience and I was there to back him up and ... BRIAN O'DRISCOLL He had flat feet. He needed a letter from me saying that flat feet hadn't kept him from playing foot... FRANK VAVALA He was definitely set back with the back for three months, and I don't think he ever really regained... PAT RILEY Tito talked to him in the last day or so. He was excited to go. He's ready for Spring Training. He f... JED HOYER He's only had about five works in the last five or six months, so he hasn't done a whole lot. He was... KRISTIN MULHALL My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But... CLAIRE DENIS In high school, he was a man playing amongst boys. He was 215 pounds playing running back. He was bi... DAVE LOGAN Absolutely amazing. To come back from a shoulder injury from last year where he couldn't swim, it wa... DYLAN EVANS It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER Dad thought he was going to make it. He wanted badly to get back down here. BRIAN GRAY He was Kobe Bryant tonight. I was pretty sure he wanted to come back at us because we pretty much hu... ANDRE IGUODALA He was never happy away from home. As soon as he got away he wanted to come back. KYM HART We just kept asking him where he was, where he was, and eventually he figured it out. KEN HITCHCOCK He was extremely reclusive. If I saw him once every two months, that was a lot. LYNN KASATKIN He was very low-key. He didn't say a whole lot, but he had that intensity about him. He wanted that ... ANDRE DAWSON When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Pica... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n... JOE WHITE She was breaking up with him, and he was trying to get her back, but she didn't want to go back with... ANDRE COHEN Being a cop was all he ever wanted to be, ... He was either at work, or he was doting on his son. He... PAUL ARNOLD He was a very, very, very aggressive animal. He would not back off of us. He chased us for probably ... ALLEN HICKS I think he was a little surprised the puck came right out to him. He had to take a step back before ... RAY EMERY Newman was a healer. He spent the last two months struggling with how to heal St. Albans. He was suc... DOUG SPALDING After three weeks in a cast he was back running stairs and after 10 weeks he was back in a cast, ROY HALLADAY Looking back, it was amazing. He was his ebullient self. He had been through a hard place, but he wa... JAMES NYKOLAY That goes back to Rich (one of Harry's sons). He started doing it in the '80s, and after he passed, ... DEAN ATKINS He should get back what was taken from him. Now his concern is that he has to spend another $350 to ... GREG LAFORGE That was huge. We were in a zone and he brought them back. He was three or four feet behind the line... BRIAN CLODI He was trying to get back to the bag and he slid a little late. DAVE LITTLEFIELD He was always hanging around for moral support and he was still savvy on the sport. But he really di... JAKE PALUMBO It was difficult. Me and Pierre, a lot of people don't know that me and Pierre were real tight last ... BRIAN JACKSON The first two or three plays he was in I was about ready to reach out and choke him. After the game,... ROY WILLIAMS You don't hear a lot from [Berryman]. He just goes out there and he does his job. It was Coach Mac's... NIK MOSER R.L., in real life was a lot different from how he comes off on the records, where he cusses and yel... JASON RICCI I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky... CHARLIE DANIELS When he was gone in Utah we missed him a lot. He would get everyone in the back going and when he wa... LOUIS FALCON He wanted to prove to everybody that he could do what he wanted to do. It was a challenge for him. HUGH MUSCAT Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but... JOE TERESHINSKI I'm not saying he was never a gangster because he was. I'm simply saying he'd had enough. He wanted ... JEFFREY LICHTMAN He was a two-way great. He was a leader and a captain for us. He had the natural ability to play any... DICK SCHAFRATH And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, / A... BIBLE We've seen a lot of good things out of Lance this year. Obviously, recently in the last month, he ha... BOB MELVIN It was good to have him back. He got out there and he was flying around. He was loving it. ANTHONY WOLLSCHLAGER He is 100 percent ahead of where he was last year. He just doesn't get tired. He does a lot of thing... BOB STOLL During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live... GREG A. MULLINS We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was n... ANTON ALAM We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was n... ANTON BACHRUL ALAM He was overzealous, he was going to question this student and if he didn't get a chance to question ... JOHN WEAVER There was one kid, he said he watched us the last couple of years and he really went into depth abou... LEWIS THORPE He wanted to die here. He said he wanted to be a martyr (for Islam). It was quite clear that he want... CHRIS MURRAY He was really recruited by the other staff. But he had made a commitment and this was where he reall... BRADY HOKE He told us he met some people from North Carolina and they told him he might could get a scholarship... BARBARA FELTON He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ... WENDELL BERRY Santana did what he does best, he's a good pitcher and we were waiting for him to come back [out]. B... FREDERICH CEPEDA We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty hocke... JASON ARNOTT I give [Tomes] a lot of credit. I called him this morning when he was in class and told him he was g... BRUCE MARSHALL This was something Dan wanted to do. He was adamant about going back to Iraq after being in Kosovo. ... BRIAN REIMERS But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep... J.K. ROWLING Even then I watched him, ... I knew he was a game champion and that he wasn't going to go out like a... MIKE TYSON My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. BRUCE CAMPBELL He was so much like his dad. Not just physically, but temperament, too. He was never a mean horse, b... GUS KOCH He was a late find for people. He was a heavy hitter. When we used him in the one-back set he had so... GEORGE PORRITT You all right?" he said again. I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I w... MARGARET ATWOOD He felt like there was a need for him to go back to Iraq as some type of security. BOB MCCOY He basically led this team for the last 10 years when you think about it. We knew why he came back. ... CHARLIE BATCH He got punched two or three times. He was taken to New York University Hospital. At the hospital, he... BRUCE REGENSTREICH Koltsov, he's back in Russia. His mother is very ill and he wanted to stay back and be with her. He ... DAVE NONIS Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ Andrew Jenkins was the big one. He was down by a lot. But he stuck with it, kept plugging away, play... JACK KOSMICKI
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His leather jacket is still hanging in the paint shop. EDWARD GOSWICK They stayed there, because he and J.D. were good buddies. EDWARD GOSWICK He liked Kid Rock and most rock 'n' roll. EDWARD GOSWICK The person of wisdom is the person of years. EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them. EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n... EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting. EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu... 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EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu... EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th... EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ... EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua... EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but... EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens. EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves. EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat... EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight. EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death. EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly... EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years. EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou... EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c... EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac... EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low. EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes. EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. EDWARD RICKENBACKER The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th... EDWARD GIBBON It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d... EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy... EDWARD RUTHERFURD Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. EDWARD WEEKS Less base the fear of death than fear of life. EDWARD YOUNG Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin... EDWARD COCKER Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te... EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ... EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is. EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ... EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit... EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde... EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. EDWARD FAIRFAX The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. EDWARD WINDSOR There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski... EDWARD STEICHEN The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a... EDWARD STEICHEN Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o... EDWARD WESTON Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. EDWARD EGGLESTON The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. EDWARD THOMAS Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ... EDWARD DAHLBERG Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. EDWARD GIBBON We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w... EDWARD DAHLBERG Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda... EDWARD GIBBON Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp... EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu... EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the... EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr... EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis... EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b... EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation. EDWARD DAHLBERG What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden... EDWARD DAHLBERG Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God. EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h... EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun. EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders... EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ... EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife... EDWARD HOAGLAND There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ... EDWARD HOAGLAND Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ... EDWARD DAHLBERG Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. EDWARD EVERETT Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr... EDWARD BLISHEN I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. EDWARD GIBBON What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore. EDWARD DAHLBERG Every decision you make is a mistake. EDWARD DAHLBERG The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the sub... EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is... EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a... EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire... EDWARD DAHLBERG Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig... EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. EDWARD GARDNER