“I said I could and I would. And I did.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“To have a good brain the stomach must be cared for.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“A pretty young Hebrew woman spoke so little English I could not get her story except as told by the nurses. They said her name is Sarah Fishbaum, and that her husband put her in the asylum because she had a fondness for other men than himself.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“I felt sure now that no doctor could tell whether people were insane or not, so long as the case was not violent. Later”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“That was the greatest night of my existence. For a few hours I stood face to face with “self!” I”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“VERY EARLY THE OTHER MORNING I started out, not with the pleasure-seekers, but with those who toil the day long that they may live.”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
“Compare this with a criminal, who is given every chance to prove his innocence. Who would not rather be a murderer and take the chance for life than be declared insane, without hope of escape?”
― Nellie Bly, quote from Ten Days in a Mad-House
Nellie Bly
Born place: in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date May 5, 1864
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“I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Siege and Storm
“الرغبات العامة هي مجرد أمنيات واهنة، إن الرجل الذي يتمنى أن يصبح غنياً، فتلك غاية تافهة، أما الرجل الذي يرغب في كسب خمس عملات ذهبية، فتلك رغبة واقعية يستطيع أن يثابر حتى يحققها”
― George S. Clason, quote from The Richest Man in Babylon
“I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, quote from The Robe
“Mr. Benedict’s amusement sent him right off to sleep, for he had a condition called narcolepsy that caused him to nod off at unexpected moments. These episodes occurred most often when he experienced strong emotion, and especially when he was laughing. His assistants (who were also, as it happened, his adopted daughters) did what they could to protect him—he could hardly take two steps without Rhonda or Number Two shadowing him watchfully in case he should fall asleep and topple over—and Mr. Benedict guarded against such incidents himself by always wearing a green plaid suit, which he had discovered long ago to have a calming effect. Nevertheless, the occasional bout of sudden sleep was inevitable, and as a result Mr. Benedict’s thick white hair was perpetually tousled, and his face, as often as not, was unevenly shaven and marked with razor nicks. (Unfortunately nothing was more comical, Mr. Benedict said, than the sight of himself in the shaving mirror, where his bright green eyes and long, lumpy nose—together with a false white beard of shaving lather—put him in mind of Santa Claus.) He also wore spectacles of the sturdiest variety, the better to protect against shattering in the event of a fall. But as”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, quote from The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma
“இனியபுனல் அருவிதவழ் இன்பமலைச் சாரலிலே
கனிகுலவும் மரநிழலில்
கரம்பிடித்து உகந்ததெல்லாம் கனவுதானோடி - சகியே நினைவு தானோடி..!
புன்னைமரச் சோலையிலே பொன்னொளிரும் மாலையிலே என்னைவரச்சொல்லி அவர்
கன்னல்மொழி பகர்ந்ததெல்லாம் சொப்பனந்தானோடி - அந்த அற்புதம் பொய்யோடி..!
கட்டுகாவல் தான்கடந்து கள்ளரைப்போல் மட்டில்லாத
காதலுடன் கட்டி முத்தம்
ஈந்ததெல்லாம் நிகழ்ந்ததுண்டோடி நாங்கள் மகிழ்ந்ததுண்டோடி..!”
― Kalki, quote from பொன்னியின் செல்வன் [Ponniyin Selvan]
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