H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
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• For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Real
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• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Science
  • Star
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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
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• My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Smile
  • Face
  • Cause

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
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• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

  

  Wale
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Fault

• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • World
  • Spiritual

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Wishes

• I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Positive

• Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Good

• You still just got to play your game. No matter where you're at, you've got to play your game, especially in majors. When you try to push and try to make things happen, that's when you can make some big numbers at the majors.

  

  Dustin Johnson
  • Game

• 'We know a little place in the American Far West, where Charlie Briggs chops up the finest prairie-fed beef and tastes...' (pauses, and continues with a note of disgust in his voice) This is a lot of shit, you know that! You want one more? One more on the beef?

  

  Orson Welles
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• I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

  

  Joan Jett
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  • Good
  • Music

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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