Nightshades Quotes & Sayings

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places. — Richard Stanley

Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power. — John Henry Newman

Passion was something pure and indescribable - something one could see without being told. — N.K. Smith

What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps spurious, but nevertheless compelling dynamic between details which can undermine the ability of form to impose its particular tyranny on the reader's experience: there is a life in the novel which comes from within. — Ian Gregor

Understanding exactly what you need to do and then finding a way to do it, makes a quest much more feasible — Chris Guillebeau

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No. What it did mean was that I'd gotten too caught up in distractions and mind mucking to recognize anything as awe-inspiring ... I hadn't been paying attention to the beauty around me. — Sue Thoele