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And so with all things: names were vital and important.
— Algernon H. Blackwood
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
— Algernon Blackwood
For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
— Algernon Blackwood
The Wendigo is simply the Call of the Wild personified, which some natures hear to their own destruction.
— Algernon Blackwood
Often the biggest obstacle in meeting life's challenges is actually our own fear of failure.
— Daisaku Ikeda
The Forest bellowed out its victory to the winds; the winds in turn proclaimed it to the Night.
— Algernon Blackwood
Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.
— Algernon Blackwood
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
— Harvey MacKay
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
— Algernon Blackwood
because what one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.
— Algernon Blackwood
The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
— Algernon Blackwood
Beliefs are deeper than discoveries. They are eternal." Stahl
— Algernon Blackwood
It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.
— Diablo Cody
All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections.
— Dries Van Noten
across the pale glimmering of sand,
— Algernon Blackwood
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
— Algernon Blackwood
I'm such an L.A. boy, I love hanging out by the beach and throwing some steaks on the grill.
— Eric Balfour
I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.
— Robert Reich
Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.
— Algernon Blackwood
And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.
— Algernon Blackwood
For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
And soon after he slept, the change of wind he had divined stirred gently the reflection of the stars within the lake.
— Algernon Blackwood
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
— Algernon Blackwood
It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
— Algernon Blackwood
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
— Algernon H. Blackwood
The Desert settled back to sleep,
— Algernon Blackwood
Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire!
— Algernon Blackwood
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
— Algernon Blackwood
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
— Algernon Blackwood
He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood
You don't have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.
— Rainbow Rowell
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
— Algernon Blackwood
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
— Aaron Hill