I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the ... EDGAR ALLAN POE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON
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JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete... JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ... JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ... JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ... JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God? JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e... JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing... JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t... JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther... JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we... JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re... JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ... JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f... JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment. JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B... JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life. JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines! JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&... JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ... JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ... JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha... JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ... JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro... JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey. JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth. JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up. JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav... JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best. JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day. JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions. JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ... 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