"Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of people gather together in a closed room."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Air Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Bored Quotes

“I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.”

Source : Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”
“I tend to scare myself.”
“Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.”
“World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.”

Source : 'Snow' (1935)
“Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.”
“Enough of blood and tears. Enough!”
“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.”
“Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.”

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