Anno Dracula Quotes & Sayings

Had he not been the keeper of the flame, of anguish, trapped under the brilliance of what she had been to him? He had been a man of permanence, how could he have swayed to emotion like this? — Noorilhuda

The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her. The flowers withered under her breath and the touch of her hand was leprous for the leaves. The plants whose growth is belief, whose breathing is hope, whose immobility is confidence and whose calyx is prayer, the plants who kept watch into the night, hated this women with the secret force of stars. — Hendrik Cramer

Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count. — Christopher Fowler

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious. — Neil Gaiman

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy — Debasish Mridha

For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then in other areas too, [seeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digressions do not overwhelm our main task. — Aristotle.

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them. — Kim Newman

Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets. — Tony Dovale

Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness. — Ilchi Lee

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation. — Meher Baba

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen. — James Caan

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself. — Sean M. Carroll

If I'd stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don't think I would have survived high school. — Susane Colasanti

The organization of the Soviet Union was directly modeled on that of the German postal service. — David Graeber