"The Lost World" Quotes

I have come from the end of the world, from the end of time, from the abyss of night, from the children of the earth, from the heights of heaven, from the depths of hell, from the ends of the universe.

I was the flail of the Lord up in those parts, I may tell you, though you won't find it in any Blue-book. Maybe you'll read about it in the papers before you get through.

I have never seen a man run so fast as that little man. He was small but wiry, with a hard, seamed, leathery face, and the all-over brownness of head and hands that belonged to a dweller in the tropics.

You will be remembered, not for the worst thing you have ever done, but for the best.

In the struggle for existence, it was the brute creation that survived.

It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Unhinge the mind.

My word, it was magnificent.