Mary Shelley Quotes

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

Mary Shelley

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Internet
  • Name
  • Cloud

• Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Style
  • Jazz
  • Him

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Eye
  • Tradition
  • Jews

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Any

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Age
  • Acting
  • Used

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Different
  • Past
  • Nice

• I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Dance

• But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Wall
  • Very
  • Head

• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • You
  • Attitude
  • Eagles

• Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

  

  Jacob Hacker
  • People
  • Security
  • Stock

• Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Lost
  • Moving
  • Dog

• As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Long
  • Beginning
  • Habit

• In Chicago, we love our crooks!

  

  David Mamet
  • Chicago

• Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • People
  • Business
  • Game

• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Serious

• What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

  

  Mary Shelley