Quotes About Nepenthe

#1. The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come.

Patricia A. McKillip

#2. A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth.

Patricia A. McKillip

#3. Your diary should be a nepenthe.

Joe Dunthorne

#4. Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Jim Davis

#6. We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

Neil Innes

#7. Our theology and experience of the Spirit must be more interwoven if our experienced life of the Spirit is to be more effective.

Gordon D. Fee

#8. War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

#9. I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all
thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.

Helen Nielsen

#10. When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Agony's Plot
A zephyr skimmed
across my creamy skin
gently kissing
where the sun had been ...

Muse

#12. Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.

Geoff Mulgan

#13. Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

Mark Twain

#14. And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out ... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

L.J.Smith

#15. Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

T. Scott McLeod

#16. The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

E.F. Schumacher

#17. I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

C.D. Wright