H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

H. P. Lovecraft

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• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Cheer

• For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Love
  • Me
  • Boy

• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tired
  • Busy
  • Pursuing

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Now

• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Crisis

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Me

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Appreciation
  • Lie
  • Roots

• In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Men
  • You

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Invasion

• Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Doubt

• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book
  • Mother

• You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Heartbreak

• JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Evil

• Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Children
  • High
  • Running

• I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Writing
  • Hand
  • Brain

• I thought Obama was in a position to do some things. I thought 2008 was a turning point in history, with him and the Wall Street crash happening at the same time, but you just learn that those entrenched powers were really entrenched; those decayed institutions were really decayed.

  

  George Packer
  • Time
  • History
  • Wall

• It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Important
  • Action
  • Realizing

• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft