Gothic Victorian Quotes

#1. To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

Gail Carriger

#2. Please remember that just because love isn't expressed doesn't mean it isn't felt.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#3. The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

Richard Heinberg

#4. Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

Bernie Mcgill

#5. However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

Franz Kafka

#6. But I ain't puttin' it in de street. Ah'm tellin' you.'
'Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Jon Meacham

#8. The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.

Richard Luckhurst

#9. They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.

Grant Allen

#10. I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Oscar Wilde

#11. He who knows how to use the power of love is the most powerful.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

#13. One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

Josh Sugarmann

#15. Motivation will keep
you
going forwards,
Hesitation will only
drag you
backwards.

Mouloud Benzadi