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Murphy's love laws: If you get them by the balls, their...

Murphy's love laws: If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about love, contentment

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and...

Quote by Simon Pegg about talking, film, things

But Shaun Of The Dead was the first thing that Edgar and...

But Shaun Of The Dead was the first thing that Edgar and myself had written together.

Quote by Simon Pegg about things

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about religion, charity, crime, criminals, death, man

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, ...

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about religion, greed, imagination, poetry, fear

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about dream

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, ...

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about beauty, evolution, tears, soul

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Quote by Edgar Degas about art, magic, contentment

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Quote by Edgar Degas about art, vice, magic, contentment

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means...

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Quote by Edgar Degas about painting, idea, contentment

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very...

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Quote by Edgar Degas about painting, contentment

There is an education of the mind Which all require and parents only start. But there is training of a nobler kind And that's the education of the heart. Lessons that are most difficult to give Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Quote by Edgar Guest about education, parents, faith, courage, heart, mind

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

Quote by Edgar Guest about opinion, fight, fame

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about opinion, power, man

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he...

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about soul, man, life

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement;...

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about opinion, immortality, gifts

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Quote by Edgar Lee Masters about life, longing, end

I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart...

I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about love, heart

Those who dream during the day know many things that...

Those who dream during the day know many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Quote by Edgar Allan Poe about dream

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