The Lady Of The Haunted House Quotes

#1. Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Victor Hugo

#2. Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

Sam Kean

#3. Literature had fuelled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine of her own narrative.

Kate Atkinson

#4. She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

Angela Carter

#5. You don't have to be afraid of me. Eugene likes you. Doc likes you. That means I like you. We're all family now. All the funny little people who live in the cracks of the world.

Richard Kadrey

#6. I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

Mike Nichols

#7. Life is a cycle, a great wheel that turns throughout time: we are born, we live, we die, and (if we are lucky) we are reborn

Robyn Bachar

#8. Women, I think we can feel like we need to do it all and be it all. What's important is that we do the best we can, and just make time for yourself because when you do make time for yourself, you give back more as a mother; you give back more to your work.

Miranda Kerr

#9. Stay with me."

"Forever.

Mitch Albom

#10. For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.

Donna Tartt

#11. Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

Tony Abbott

#12. It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Randy Pausch

#13. I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.

Rob Sheffield

#14. When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.

Ernest Bramah