William Blake Quotes
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.William Blake
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge -
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
Patrick Swayze -
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
Ferdinand Mount -
Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
Nancy Gibbs
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
Daniel Barenboim -
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri -
Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
Foster Friess -
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
Adam Grant -
As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
Venus Williams
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
Harry Caray -
The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
Daniel Barenboim -
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
C. L. R. James -
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
Sam J. Jones -
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Jack Lemmon -
In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
Zhu Rongji
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We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
Ban Ki-moon -
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.
Diana Ross -
To me, how you dress is a way to show you care.
Nickelson Wooster -
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
Cate Blanchett -
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake