William Blake Quotes

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

William Blake

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• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
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• I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
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  • Look

• Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
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• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • True
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• I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Lost

• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Age

• I'm big on research.

  

  James L. Brooks

• It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Important
  • Women
  • Daughter

• I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.

  

  Art Malik
  • Good
  • Waiting

• Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • High
  • Peace
  • Sleep

• ‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’

  

  Christopher Paolini

• Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Financial

• Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Want
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• It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Up
  • Attention

• I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Why
  • Interesting

• I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Work
  • Victories
  • Losses

• You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Heaven

• The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fall
  • Sometimes
  • Wine

• Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Experience
  • Question
  • Religious

• Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

  

  William Blake
  • Kill
  • Butterfly
  • Judgement