Edward Gorey quote: "I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring."

There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pac...
EDWARD GOREY

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one o...
EDWARD GOREY

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosex...
EDWARD GOREY

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarit...
EDWARD GOREY

The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.
EDWARD GOREY

Books. Cats. Life is Good.
EDWARD GOREY

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
EDWARD GOREY

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
EDWARD GOREY

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.
B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
C is for Clara w...
EDWARD GOREY

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have ...
EDWARD GOREY

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish lett...
EDWARD GOREY

The Iranian issue is hanging over the market. There's a big bogey there in the form of Iran and thes...
TOBIN GOREY

The small retreat is probably due to the dollar coming back a bit.
TOBIN GOREY

Ordinarily comfortable inventories would mean lower prices -- probably closer to fifty-five dollars....
TOBIN GOREY

I understand that some of the demand from fabricators has fallen away as the price has risen.
TOBIN GOREY

There's unlikely to be a quick return of output, and the market is certainly pricing in all of these...
TOBIN GOREY

The continuation of cool weather in the United States is expected to bring big spikes in heating fue...
TOBIN GOREY

The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER

More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR

The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT

I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK

He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG

All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE

Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG

The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG

One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD

I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG

When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY

Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN

Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT

For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG

The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY

كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT

A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG

Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE

It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON

Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON

The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY

For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER

Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
EDWARD DAHLBERG

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN

By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

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Edward Gorey

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Edward Gorey

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