Blake Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Would Be, Sometimes

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.170, Penguin

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• Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

  Julie Burchill

  Thinking, Years, Restless

  "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all.

  Julia Quinn

  Hurt, Spy, Jam

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• Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

  Brenda Ueland

  Believe, Hero, Ordinary

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Vampire, Rabbits, Attention

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.206, Penguin

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• I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To Pay

  Jeaniene Frost

  Forever, Missing, Devil

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• I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn't slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Night, Missing

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• I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Lines, Remember

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.91, Anchor

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• The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.272, Penguin

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• The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Heart, Men, Way

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• William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Musician, Sound, Poet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Success, Beautiful, War

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.260, Regent College Publishing

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• The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hippie, Iguanas, People

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• The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, Song, Drinking

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• In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

  Freeman Dyson

  Writing, Artist, Generations

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• Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wall, Truth, Men

  1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

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• Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.

  Corey Koskie

  Good Friend, Winning, Minnesota

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• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture.

  Robert Frost

  Art

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• Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Brain, World

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Reflection, Men

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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• Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Color, Shoes

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.15, Penguin

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• You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Ducks, Vampire, Hunters

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• Get up guys. We’ve got a visit to pay.” “What are you talking about?” “I am not hanging out with Blake Lazar again.

  Richelle Mead

  Talking, Guy, Pay

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• I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once held Grandma Blake's green beans. Larry fished out a peanut butter jar with the label still on it. Extra-crunchy. Yum-Yum.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Grandma, Glasses, Hands

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.263, Penguin

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