William Blake Quotes
Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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I guess I don't know if I'm comfortable with fame or touring or promo or any of that stuff, and I really discovered that I love working for people and co-writing and working under someone.
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Yes, I'm half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian... and I couldn't understand a word he said.
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I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
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Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
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People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.
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None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
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Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
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I hope I pass on my dad's good humor, work ethic and lack of self-seriousness. Our house was always a fun place where you'd get knocked around quickly if you took yourself too seriously.
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Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering.
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Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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As I've told Tyler, there's not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We're just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I'll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.
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She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.
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All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk.
