Algernon Blackwood Quotes

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Algernon Blackwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 14, 1869 - December 10, 1951

Topics

StrangeWildSpinningTasteTell

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.

John Wesley Powell

QualityNameMoreThanSomeObject

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

John Woolman

HeartAloneBrokenMeHelpMy Own

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

KingLawConnectionSaidMoreTake

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

Tom Noonan

JobMeFeelActingDifferentReally

I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant.

Ron Moody

HumblePeopleOldNeedBigBecause

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Mason Cooley

LoveRomanticLove IsCalmRomance

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

ThinkingCareerCancerOptions

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Luis Bunuel

FreedomImaginationPeopleChance

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

Douglas Carter Beane

AngryFeelConfusedSomeoneYouSay

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

Cher

StarsPeopleDeepThinkBackKnow

In 2006, after 12 years being separated away from my family and then seven years knowing that they were dead and them thinking that we were dead, we reunited... in the most dramatic, American way possible. Live, on television.

Clemantine Wamariya

FamilyLiveThinkingAmericanWay

I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.

Alison Mosshart

LoveDayPeopleMePaintingThink

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