Blake Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Book, School, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

  Steven Sebring

  People, Inspire, Arthur

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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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• Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

  Hal Duncan

  Jeter, Fiction, Yeats

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

  Jeaniene Frost

  Forever, Missing, Devil

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• If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.

  Jenna Black

  Psycho, Cop, Ifs

  Jenna Black (2016). “Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Iʹve seen you too. Ozera. Crispin, right?ʺ ʺChristian,ʺ corrected Lissa. ʺRight.ʺ .... ʺSo what brings you and Christopher here?ʺ asked Blake. He finished a glass of something amber colored and set it down beside the new drink. ʺChristian,ʺ said Christian. .... Blake gave her puppy-dog eyes. ʺBut you just got here! I was hoping we could get to know each other.ʺ It went without saying what he meant by that. ʺOh. And Kreskin too.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Dog, Eye

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• Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out. "No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Games, Confusion

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• I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

  John Cheever

  Writing, Make Sense

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• Blake smiled radiantly. ʺMay I call you Vasilisa?ʺ ʺYou can call me Lissa.ʺ ʺYou can also,ʺ added Christian, ʺlet go of her hand now.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Letting Go, Hands

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• Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

  Brenda Ueland

  Wonder, Reason, Said

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