William Blake Quotes

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Horse
  • Gun

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• I'm proud to partner with organizations that place an emphasis on and share my interest in giving back to the community. RBC has a rich history of doing this through their sponsorship of golf and the extensive ambassadorial program they have in place.

  

  Jason Day
  • History
  • Giving
  • Community

• I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making records and doing interviews and photo shoots and that, that are kind of a necessary evil of getting my music to people's ears to hear. Over the years, I've just become more tolerant of that.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Music
  • Evil

• No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston

• Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

  

  David Beckham
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Passion

• I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie

• Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line - line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.

  

  Walter Crane
  • Designer
  • Staff
  • Lean

• Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Fact
  • Production
  • Cancelled

• Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Hollywood
  • Sells
  • Generic

• I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Moral
  • I Think

• Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Cleaning

• For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Reverence
  • Esteemed

• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Feelings
  • Forced
  • Prey

• Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Story
  • Joys
  • Pains

• Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Believe
  • Die
  • Remembrance

• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Chance
  • Facts
  • Historian

• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  

  William Blake
  • Joys
  • Priest
  • Chooses