Blair > Blair's Quotes

“It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.”
― André Gide

“He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood”
― Whit Masterson

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops.”
― Noam Chomsky, 9-11

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.”
― Ian Curtis

“The most deceptive sort of people tend to be our selves. Maybe the half full/empty glass is like tonight's half moon: You gotta trust what your eyes don't see, that the other half is there.”
― Blair Miller

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd