Blake Morrison Quotes

At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

Blake Morrison

• Writing
• Poetry
• Crisis
• Grieves

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• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dream

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Looks

• I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Light
  • Humour
  • Hearted

• I've played sports and been active my whole life.

  

  Warren Christie
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Active

• How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Sense
  • Mother`s

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Financial
  • Priorities
  • Top

• I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Risk

• She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.

  

  Tad Williams
  • God
  • She
  • Doubt

• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Green

• What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Good
  • Curiosity

• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Thinking
  • Optimistic

• Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Long
  • Fear

• You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Job
  • Mistake
  • Letting

• There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Crafts

• Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Joy

• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  

  Blake Morrison
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Crisis