Opium Den Quotes

#1. The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

Phillip Adams

#2. We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.

Libba Bray

#3. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Anonymous

#4. You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking
that got you into those problems in the first place.

Albert Einstein

#5. I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.

Roger Miret

#6. One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Carrie Vaughn

#7. One of the things I've always felt," Steve told me, "is that if you're going to be creative, it's like jumping up in the air; you want to make damn sure the ground is going to be there when you get back.

Brent Schlender

#8. You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared.

Edith Templeton

#9. It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice.

Nigel Lawson

#10. An' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon.

David Mitchell

#11. There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face and the mother's joy, the child of the narcissistic parent feels like, 'What can I do to make her okay, to make her happy?'

Susan Sullivan

#12. I hope I was a good example of women's tennis.

Victoria Azarenka

#13. I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

Blythe Danner