J.S. Strange Quotes
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.
For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.
Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.
You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.
No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.
It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.
Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.
The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.
Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.
Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?
All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?
...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.
The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.
. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.
Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.
Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.
…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.
Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.
I have lost confidence in myself.
Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times
... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.
But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.
It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.
Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.
Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?
This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.
Well, if you’d let me explain before you went bolting outta the room, then you’d know, wouldn’t you? It seems to me that you’re quite dead. So I’ve come to collect you.” –Sam
Love will find you when you least expect it to
But at the time, a mark of how far down the rabbit hole I had fallen, I saw it as just another tragedy I needed to stuff in the growing box in the back of my head. Shut the top and move on.
Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is the same. Originality and individuality is key.
Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.