#trance

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#actors #drama #entrance #exit #life

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. ↗

— William Drummond

#entrance #had #into #learn #leaving

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

#called #cask #close #compact #contained

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact. ↗

— Howard Carter

#before #entrance #evidence #here #intact

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. ↗

— John Ciardi

#entrance #escape #into #should #world

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#absolutely nothing #country #democratic #democratic party #entrance

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#chances #doors #entrance #exit #opportunities

Heacox had disobeyed the first two laws of safety and survival: Do not touch unless you have to, and then do not touch until you've checked. And maybe here in the Temple of the Dead there was one more law, even more important: Do not touch until you understand it. ↗

— Graham Masterton

#death

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#sleep #somnambulists #trance #death