French revolution Quote by Jo Walton

“His forehead, however, was disfigured by what looked like a haphazard assortment of eyes, eight in number, of different sizes and shapes. They went…

— David Lindsay

“He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he…

— Ron Hansen

“Once he inserted a bodkin – a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather – into his eye socket and rubbed it…

— Bill Bryson

“He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of…

— Alex Shakar

“I once watched him remove a living man’s face. He took one tiny patch of flesh at a time until the faceless, blubbering man…

— Anson Scott

“He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth, some wayward…

— John Cowper Powy's i Wolf Solent i

“During the Society's early years, no member personified the organization's eccentricities or audacious mission more than Sir Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin's,…

— David Grann

“When something baffled him he found that if he kept on worrying it, he got no further, and lost his sense of proportion in…

— Josephine Tey

“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding existence, been…

— Victor Hugo

“Alan Campbell opened one eye. From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up…

— John Dickson Carr

“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through…

— Grace Paley

“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him off to sleep again.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein