Voynich Quotes

#1. Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

Terence McKenna

#2. The disease itself is what is called a religious attitude of mind.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#3. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#4. Would you have me wait till my grave opens of itself to swallow me up?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#5. I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

Usher

#6. In this month he had been too happy to sin much

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#7. They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#8. People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Dhani Jones

#9. So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#10. Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#11. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#12. Good news arrives with TV cameras and big, brightly painted vans. Bad news arrives quietly, in dark sedans with black windows.

Delilah S. Dawson

#13. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

Douglas MacArthur

#14. As a literary composition, it is utterly worthless, and could be admired only by persons who know nothing about literature. As for its giving offence, that is the very thing I intended it to do.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#15. A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#16. The hand of the Lord is heavy.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#17. We are all fit for better things than we ever do

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#18. Do you think you didn't hurt the man you killed?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#19. Let's test the waters ...
Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip.

Pusha T

#20. We always understood each other without many words, even when we were little things.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#21. A waste. If I'd been ten years younger, I'd have stolen her meself. That hair she had. Well, the hottest fires burn out quickest. He

George R R Martin

#22. It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#23. I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't want me to know a thing.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#24. The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#25. Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

Joe Abercrombie

#26. If you have found the way of sacrifice, the way that leads to peace; if you have joined with loving comrades to bring deliverance to them that weep and mourn in secret; then see to it that your soul be free from envy and passion and your heart as an altar where the sacred fire burns eternally.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#27. Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.

Malcolm Forbes

#28. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#29. He shook his head. The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#30. A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Homer

#31. If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#32. Most of us are degraded in one way or another.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#33. I dare say you will think it an absurd prejudice; but a human body, to me, is a sacred thing; I don't like to see it treated irreverently and made hideous.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#34. Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

Judith Martin

#35. I quite agree with you that it is detestably malicious. But the worst thing about it is that it's all true.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#36. Remember what your own Shelley says: 'The past is Death's, the future is thine own.' Take it, while it is still yours, and fix your mind, not on what you may have done long ago to hurt, but on what you can do now to help.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#37. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#38. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Ken Jennings

#39. I have only one offering to give, a broken heart.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#40. There is no case which calls for injustice; and to condemn a civilian by the judgment of a secret military tribunal is both unjust and illegal.

Ethel Lilian Voynich