Thomas Huxley Quotes

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

The absent are easily refuted.

I can give the loser leave to chide.

Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?

I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

Rosemarie you are out of line

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.