Narcotic Effect

Famous quotes containing the words narcotic effect, narcotic and/or effect:

    Hans Castorp loved music from his heart; it worked upon him much the same way as did his breakfast porter, with deeply soothing, narcotic effect, tempting him to doze.
    Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    With the narcotic milk of peace for men
    Who find Thy beautiful center ...
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)