Aldous Huxley Soma Quotes & Sayings

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. — Georg Buchner

one of the many prohibitions in the Disney College Program is that we are not allowed any pets - not even a fish. — Katie Hudson

Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted!
Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
Skies are blue inside of you,
The weather's always fine;
For
There ain't no Bottle in all the world
Like that dear little Bottle of mine. — Aldous Huxley

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, "an extraordinary achievement" and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what. — Carol Piner

Our real interest starts with our neighbors ... the future is about regional economies. — Jean Charest

Because our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. Which you go and chuck out of the window in the name of liberty, Mr. Savage. Liberty!" He laughed. "Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello! My good boy! — Aldous Huxley

I turned to face her. "What about fear. Can you outrun it?"

"Only if ye stand still and face it do ye have a chance against fear. — April White

I've made a lot of choices, some good, some not so good; how sad for those who merely hitchhike along, never daring to choose at all. — C.J. Heck

Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised? — Diogenes Laertius

Here is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon ... — Aldous Huxley

Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living. — Katelin LaMontagne

Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma.
Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet. — Aldous Huxley

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you'd like them to be. — Greg Behrendt

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that. — Robert Pattinson

Television is the soma of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. — Robert MacNeil

When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute. — Charisma Carpenter

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory. — David Byrne