Allan Coe Quotes & Sayings

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about. — David Allan Coe

Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism. — Allan Wolf

It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception — Michael Allan Scott

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon! — Edgar Allan Poe

Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear. — Allan Sherman

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race. — Allan McNish

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea. — David Allan Coe

Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen. — Edgar Allan Poe

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life. — David Allan Coe

Karma is God's girlfriend. — Allan Williams

I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself. — Gary Allan

Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness. — Allan Gurganus

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

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street. — Allan Lokos

If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now. — Allan G. Johnson

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies. — David Allan

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

I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence
whether much that is glorious
whether all that is profound
does not spring from disease of thought
from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable", and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi".
We will say then, that I am mad. — Edgar Allan Poe

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. — Allan Savory

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value. — Allan Lokos

Teddy: Sorry, Kaplan. You're stuck with me. Till death do us part.
Billy: Teddy Altman, did you just propose to me? — Allan Heinberg

Luchesi cannot tell amontillado from a sherry — Edgar Allan Poe

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. — Gary Allan

She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter. He, passionate, studious, austere, and having already a bride in his Art; she a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee; all light and smiles, and frolicsome as the young fawn; loving and cherishing all things; hating only the Art which was her rival; — Edgar Allan Poe

He who takes his eyes off the goal has a good chance of not scoring!" - Allan Rufus -
learningcentre (dot)transformationcoach(dot)help/wp — Allan Rufus

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
— David Allan Coe

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck. — David Allan Coe

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own. — David Allan Coe

Freedom cannot be given ... It can only be taken away. — David Allan Coe

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. — David Allan Coe

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. — David Allan Coe

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. — David Allan Coe

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile. — David Allan Coe

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know. — David Allan Coe

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister;
The whole world called me 'Hank'! — David Allan Coe

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is. — David Allan Coe

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. — Edgar Allan Poe

She couldn't stop herself from grinning back at — Max Allan Collins

FAIR river! in thy bright, clear flow Of crystal, wandering water, Thou art an emblem of the glow Of beauty - the unhidden heart - The playful maziness of art In old Alberto's daughter; But when within thy wave she looks - Which glistens then, and trembles - Why, then, the prettiest of brooks Her worshipper resembles; For in his heart, as in thy stream, Her image deeply lies - His heart which trembles at the beam Of her soul-searching eyes. — Edgar Allan Poe

The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death — Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. — Edgar Allan Poe

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes ... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God. — Edgar Allan Poe

The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia — Edgar Allan Poe

Character is who you are when no one is looking. — Allan Williams

Seemed our house stirred up troubles enough to keep a radio soap show in daily episodes forever. — Allan Gurganus

Allan praised Herbert for a job well done and for acting the part well. Herbert blushed, while dismissing the praise, saying it wasn't hard to play stupid when you are stupid. Allan said that he didn't know how hard it was, because the idiots Allan had met so far in his life had all tried to do the opposite. — Jonasson, Jonas

Ah, bear in mind this garden was enchanted! — Edgar Allan Poe

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative. — Gary Allan

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. — Edgar Allan Poe

Being a senior doesn't automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us. — Allan Lokos

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

He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.
'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall. — Norman Lock

A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value. — Allan G. Johnson

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. — Allan Bloom

I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday. — Gary Allan

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. — David Allan Coe

Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear ... from my future Kids' Funny Business. — Ivan Stoikov

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers. — Allan Rock

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist. — David Allan Coe

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. — Edgar Allan Poe

To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. - Earl Warren — Max Allan Collins