Blackard Quotes & Sayings

I've always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit - that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like? — Andrew M. Ryan

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it. — Richard Sibbes

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed. — Vinnie Jones

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story. — Jean M. Auel

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits. — Joshua Foer