Blake Quotes

• Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Funny, Smile, Trust

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.327, Penguin

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• I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

  John McEnroe

  Brother, New York, Kids

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• I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  Catherine Crier

  Thinking, Waiting, May

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• There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Song, Party, Innocence And Experience

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• Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Sex, Soul

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• The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Albums, Form, Artwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

  David Amram

  Writing, Literature, World

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• A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Acceptance, Firsts

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

  Anne Stevenson

  Book, Frost, Yeats

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• There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

  John Drinkwater

  Order, Judgment, Accepted

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Starting Over, Body, Paperwork

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• I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

  Philip Levine

  Country, Believe, Destiny

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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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• Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.

  Tom Verlaine

  Morning, Jobs, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Desire, Energy, Vigor

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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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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• When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.

  Michiel Huisman

  Passion, Two, Long

  Source: screenrant.com

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

  Jeaniene Frost

  Forever, Missing, Devil

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