William Blake Quotes

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

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• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Changing
  • Been
  • Climate

• I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • School
  • Learning
  • Road

• In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Way
  • Me

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • You
  • Competition
  • Management

• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Community
  • Place
  • Individual

• The most important thing is to not waste your money.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Important
  • Money
  • Waste

• I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Sad
  • My Life

• By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • London

• Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Life
  • Book
  • Bible

• I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Know
  • Learning
  • Like

• The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Said
  • Pressure
  • Outside

• I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Dream
  • Dad
  • His

• With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Work
  • Education
  • Light

• An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • People
  • Fire
  • Illegal

• For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Pilots
  • Fellowship
  • Guild

• I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Listening
  • Footsteps

• If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is high time that I take advantage of this and promptly begin with the quadrille--people would presumably laugh a little at him, but in the world of spirit this is very plausible. What, then, is education? I believed it is the course the individual goes through in order to catch up with himself, and the person who will not go through this course is not much helped by being born in the most enlightened age.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Dance
  • Learn
  • Spirit

• Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

  

  William Blake
  • Laugh
  • Sorrows
  • Reap