Blake > Blake's Quotes

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall.
"Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question."
"D'you think you managed to get all the signs?" said James in tones of mock concern.
"Think I did," said Lupin seriously, as they joined the crowd thronging around the front doors eager to get out into the sunlit grounds. "One: He's sitting on my chair. Two: He's wearing my clothes. Three: His name's Remus Lupin...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson