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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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I think it's important for women to have a means to get health care. I think it's important that women have a place to go to get Pap smears and cancer screenings. And it shouldn't be considered extra. It shouldn't be considered something that can be "cut." It shouldn't be something that's in danger of going away. The idea that we're even thinking about cutting that off because somebody else isn't enjoying it themselves or somebody has extreme opinions about it is worrisome to me.
Shonda Rhimes -
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey -
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