William Blake Quotes

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Play
  • Kid
  • Back

• I'm not coming back to play.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Play
  • Back
  • Coming

• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Night
  • Worry
  • Wind

• I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Back
  • Overcome
  • Brutality

• I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Trust
  • Promise
  • Back

• Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Sand

• Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Marketing

• I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Back
  • Leave

• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Power
  • Energy

• I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Country

• He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Back
  • Well
  • Satisfied

• One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Back

• Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Know
  • Sand
  • Dubai

• I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Heart
  • She
  • Character

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Always
  • Rock
  • Back

• The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Simple
  • Eye
  • Back

• I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Look
  • Will
  • Back

• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Prayer

• All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Enjoyment
  • Suppose
  • Acts

• A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Beautiful

• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Small
  • Cost

• You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

  

  William Blake
  • Wind
  • Back
  • Sand