Effie Gray Quotes

#1. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

Lemony Snicket

#2. We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

A. N. Wilson

#3. We need, in other words, to learn how to enjoy things without feeling entitled to them and without clinging to them.

William B. Irvine

#4. What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

C. Z. Guest

#5. I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

George Carlin

#6. We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

Michael Lewis

#7. His voice made my shiver, it was like the sound f water when it pulls off sand.

Jenny Han

#8. Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Robert Trout

#9. Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.

Jean Racine

#10. There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

Danny Aiello

#11. Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

Ramakrishna

#12. You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

Janeane Garofalo

#13. Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Hazel Rochman