William Blake Quotes

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

William Blake

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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• We care about margins.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Care
  • About
  • Margins

• I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Realize

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Heights

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Being
  • I Love
  • Photographed

• My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Road
  • First

• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Real
  • House

• I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Woman
  • Walking
  • Red

• You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Win
  • Motivational
  • Winners

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • She
  • Child

• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I think that people like to put you down to one line - a synopis of some kind. And I just don't pay any attention to it.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • People
  • Attention

• Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Fool

• Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • God
  • Care
  • Take Care

• I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Know
  • Like
  • Motorcycle

• For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Wife

• O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

  

  William Blake
  • Different
  • Born
  • Face