A Local Habitation Quotes

#1. And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shapes, and give to airy nothings a local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

#2. And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or the infinite; but, in his own larger language, a local habitation and a name.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

William Shakespeare

#4. You keep your wine in a paper bag, you shouldn't be too upset when it leaks.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Emma Donoghue

#6. Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.

James K. Morrow

#7. Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

Charles Darwin

#8. What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#9. Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

Betty Smith

#10. He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Sandy Koufax

#11. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.

Josh Groban

#13. Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower."
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!

Bryce Courtenay

#14. Everyone else in the world is sorry. Dare to be something more than that.

Alan Bradley

#15. You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence.
- Tybalt

Seanan McGuire

#16. Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude ever had local habitation, this might have been "her place of dearest residence

Ann Radcliffe

#17. Through windows,
in wishing wells,
whispering in the wind...
that's where I find you.

Jessica Kristie

#18. believe that it's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces. The

Josh Malerman

#19. I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

Donald Trump

#20. I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

Flume

#21. I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.

Roseline Filion