Blackbird 2007 Quotes & Sayings

Treat me like a joke, watch me leave you like its funny — Auliq Ice

The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly. — Frederick Lenz

The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us. — Meister Eckhart

If the fidelity [ in a book] isn't maintained, the reader will think your structure is extraneous, or superficial, or that you're trying to curry favor, or live up to the expectations of some sort of genre or structure. — David Bezmozgis

Just as the moon brought out the wolf in a werewolf, so alcohol brought this creature out of his dad. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love. — Debasish Mridha

But what a man sees still must depend on what he looks for. While I have eyes of my own, I shall not need to borrow yours. — Barry Unsworth

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. — Austin O'Malley

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. — Adam Hamilton

I didn't want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it's rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact. — Jeanette Winterson

Remember people you may not be plastic ... but you are fantastic! never forget that — Louis Tomlinson

One day Adam will realize that what he felt for me was just a crazy kind of desperation. We were two people who really needed someone to hold on to, and we had this past that made us seem so compatible. But it wasn't enough. Because if it were, I wouldn't have been able to walk away so easily. — Tahereh Mafi

Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred ... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion. — Martin Scorsese

I had formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the frying-pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you. — Benjamin Franklin