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I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
— Edward Lear
We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
— Edward W. Said
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
— Edward W. Said
How could you even think of doing that..." Edward said, and their hearts sank in disappointment, "...without me?
— Jennae Noelle
Texts are not finished objects.
— Edward Said
Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,' said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.
— Edward St. Aubyn
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
— Edward Abbey
No, sir, Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.
— John Edward Williams
One last question," Sprite said. "Who are you? Special Forces? CIA? Xenobiologist?" "I used to play a lot of World of Warcraft.
— Edward W. Robertson
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once - there has to be a limit
— Edward W. Said
Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.
— Edward Hirsch
Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
— Edward Abbey
Stoner said to Finch, I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.
— John Edward Williams
Indeed, if "biology is chemistry with history," as somebody has said, then nature writing is biology with love.
— Edward Hoagland
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
— Edward Abbey
I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?
— Kate DiCamillo
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
— Edward Lear
I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.
— Edward Klein
Poor Mike. I'll bet he's mad." "He absolutely loathes me," Edward said cheerfully.
— Stephenie Meyer
Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
— Edward Dahlberg
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
— Edward Said
Whose one hundred and twenty-nine homilies are still extant, if what no one reads may be said to be extant.]
— Edward Gibbon
I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
— Edward Elgar
Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets.
— Edward Hirsch
Our role is to widen the field of discussion, not to set limits in accord with the prevailing authority.
— Edward W. Said
After all, as Edward Tufte once said, "Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design.
— Golden Krishna
Come and find me," she said."Always. — Nicole Castroman
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I said it three times actually.
— Edward Heath
Lust and learning," Katherine once said. "That's really all there is, isn't it?
— John Edward Williams
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
— Edward W. Said
I have been loved said Edward to the stars.
— Kate DiCamillo
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
— Edward Hopper
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
— Edward W. Said
But don't you understand?' she said urgently. 'The demon was hiding all the way down in sublevel three.
— Edward Cox
Who's that with you?' Stephen asked.'Death,' I said.
Edward bowed.
'Trust you to bring death to the ball, ma petite. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Never mind,' Gertchen said with a smile, 'you'll have to be pagan today.
— Edward Rutherfurd
When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'
— Edward Said
They weren't like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.
— Edward W. Said
I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.
— Edward Furlong
I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
— Edward Albee
He picked up his sword. "We are off, then?""Without hesitation," Edward said.
And for a few moments, they hesitated. Then they were off. — Cynthia Hand
Egypt restored to prosperity, regenerated by wise and enlightened administration ... would shed its civilizing rays upon all its Oriental neighbors.
— Edward W. Said
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
— Edward Said
Edward," I said, managing to speak more clearly with a little effort, "there's no point to forever without you. I wouldn't want one day without you.
— Stephanie Meyers
I put my hand on Bill's shoulder and told him, yeah the sacrifice was worth it. He said, 'Yeah, I think so, too.
— Edward Heffron
Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?
— Edward Said
As I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.
— Edward Rutherfurd
Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.
— Patrick Taylor
I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.
— Edward St. Aubyn
Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.
— Jean Edward Smith
