Blackford Quotes & Sayings

I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip. — Tracy Morgan

Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that - feelings - and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them. — Russell Blackford

If you close your eyes, no one can see you... — Dakota Cassidy

without purpose your sharp perceptions and subtle noticings are just an excuse to swim around inside your own head like a goldfish whilst the real world rages on about you. You're all vision and no purpose, in a world that demands we constantly ready ourselves not to bark, but to bite. — Troy Blackford

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police - whichever work the shorter hours. — Anthony Powell

There are indeed ducks in Blackford Pond." "On it," muttered Isabel. "What?" "On the pond. There are ducks on the pond. There are fish in it." Even as she spoke, Isabel had no idea why she was being so pedantic, and — Alexander McCall Smith

The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use. — John Kao

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? — Henry David Thoreau