Algernon Blackwood Quotes

It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

Algernon Blackwood

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• I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Feeling
  • Know
  • Always

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Player

• I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Guy
  • Today
  • Attitude

• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Romania

• But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Country
  • Intellectual
  • Italy

• 'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • History
  • Science
  • Drama

• I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you want if you work hard.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Think

• Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Realize

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Money
  • Control
  • Communication

• This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before...The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Miracle

• The reason that attacks by American terrorists who are not jihadist militants are sometimes not called 'terrorism' is, in part, because in the United States, terrorism is a crime which has to be in some way be associated with a 'designated' terrorist group such as ISIS.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American

• The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Forgotten

• Change also brings opportunities for discussion, introspection and, ultimately, renewal. So, as I start this journey as your CEO, I’d like to hear from you.

  

  Christopher Kempczinski
  • Journey
  • Opportunities
  • Introspection

• What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Good

• Fine worries, like fine wines, are at their best only after they have been properly mellowed.

  

  Dan Greenburg
  • Only
  • Worries
  • Properly

• The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Different

• It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

  

  Algernon Blackwood