H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

H. P. Lovecraft

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• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Different
  • Same

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Bible

• It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Better
  • Look
  • Customers

• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fault

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Great
  • Country
  • Kids

• We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Heart
  • May

• I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Up
  • Morning

• My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Friends
  • Rock Stardom

• So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry itself anciently received, among other appellations, that of Lux, or Light, to signify that it is to be regarded as that sublime doctrine of Divine Truth by which the path of him who has attained it is to be illuminated in his pilgrimage of life.

  

  Albert Mackey
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Masonic

• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Alone