The Sphinx Edgar Allan Poe Quotes & Sayings

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life. — Chogyam Trungpa

Was that the girl who went to Manhattan with you?" Asked Marcus. "I think we owe her a cookie" "I think we owe her a whole damn bakery" said Xochi. "If I wasn't hip deep on the mud, I would kiss her on the mouth — Dan Wells

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone. — Colin Farrell

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess. — Robert Downey Jr.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute. — Thomas Jefferson

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner. — Gore Vidal

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life ... Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people. — Leo Tolstoy

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart