#shudder

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#cling #come #cry #feed #horror

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#brits #case #down #german #just

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. ↗

— James A. Michener

#america #china #country #creative #creative expression

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#been #dreams #gates #i #invisible

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#genius #incompleteness #prefers #saying #should

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#hand #human #into #may #mysterious

I shudder when relating it. ↗

— Virgil

#relating #shudder

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#imperfection #incompleteness #shudder #silence #silence

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#completely #could #how #i #insane

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#american #british #embrace #enthusiasm #especially