Some of the greatest
Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. Ezra Taft Benson
Chamber
As a boy I
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. Ernst Toller
Very well! he said.
Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I’d never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won’t we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from … Read more
How senseless is everything
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what … Read more
I have ne’er been
I have ne’er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e’en when the matter concern’d my own future most profoundly. Erica Jong
beware the Lure of
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as ’tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men. Erica Jong
The postdoc explained to
The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. Eric Allin Cornell
At least to pray
At least to pray is left – is left Oh Jesus – in the Air – I know not which thy chamber is – I’m knocking everywhere. Emily Dickinson
One need not be
One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted – One need not be a House – The Brain – has Corridors – surpassing Material Place – Far safer, of a Midnight – meeting External Ghost – Than an Interior – Confronting – That cooler – Host. Far safer, through an Abbey – gallop … Read more
I dwell in Possibility A
I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior–for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors–the fairest For Occupation–This The spreading wide my narrow Hands To gather Paradise Emily Dickinson