William Blake Quotes

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

William Blake

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• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Women
  • Live
  • She

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Schedule
  • X Out

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Time
  • Day
  • Doing

• I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Book

• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine
  • Happy
  • Fear
  • Die

• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • High
  • Value
  • Friendship

• Discussion, therefore, is one of the motive powers of life, and, as such, is not to be deprecated.

  

  John Tyndall
  • Life

• There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

  

  William Blake
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Imaginative