...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not… — Moby Copy Share Image
When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny. — George Arnold Copy Share Image
If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh,… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. — John Milton Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image