Blake Butler Quotes

Skins on skins against a wide unveiling in hair like riots in the false collaborative witness. Seas in spinning silence of the corridors of plasmatic fish rising to fit their homes against our home as well and writhe the poison of their 300,000,000 heads of hidden sickness, upon the tongues of those the dying night had yet to memorize.

Blake Butler

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• If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Child

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Down

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Never
  • Now

• We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.

  

  Vasily Grossman

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Broken

• What a fucking great band we were.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Great
  • Band

• American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Long
  • American
  • Words

• Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Famous
  • Perspective
  • California

• The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Lost

• I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

  

  Kehlani
  • Up
  • Giving

• My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Light
  • Sea
  • Sunrise

• The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Job
  • Control
  • Purpose

• There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Morality
  • Ethics

• Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Success
  • Programming
  • Examples

• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  

  William Wulf
  • Reason
  • Computer
  • Stupidity

• A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Pain
  • Darkness
  • Insanity

• Skins on skins against a wide unveiling in hair like riots in the false collaborative witness. Seas in spinning silence of the corridors of plasmatic fish rising to fit their homes against our home as well and writhe the poison of their 300,000,000 heads of hidden sickness, upon the tongues of those the dying night had yet to memorize.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Silence
  • Skins
  • Poison