Bloks Quotes & Sayings

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. — Chanakya

I can't really say enough about Chris Potter. He is one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, and every second I have been on the band stand with him has been an absolute pleasure. — Pat Metheny

To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. — Eugene O'Neill

When he wakes he has to learn the lack of her all over again — Hilary Mantel

Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up. — Theresa Sjoquist

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! — Jill Telford

As might be expected, he was given to bouts of very purposeful ignorance, and tended to pass over the harsher truths of human nature in favor of those that could be romanticized by whimsy and imagination. — Eleanor Catton

One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride. — Richard Nelson Bolles

I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had never done both at the same time. Don't know why. I was comfortable painting indoors and I liked best to retrieve those images from memory where they might be stained by awe and jumbled together with other things I loved. Now that I had tried the other, I wanted to do more. — Peter Heller

Secularization - that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age - is not just something that happens to the church; it is something that happens in the church. In fact, it's difficult to think of secularism as anything other than a Christian heresy. — Michael S. Horton

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul. — Teena Marie

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface it simply remains the difficulty it was. It has to be pulled out by the roots; and that involves our beginning to think about these things in a new way. The change is as decisive as, for example, that from the alchemical to the chemical way of thinking. The new way of thinking is what is so hard to establish. Once the new way of thinking has been established, the old problems vanish; indeed they become hard to recapture. For they go with our way of expressing ourselves and, if we clothe ourselves in a new form of expression, the old problems are discarded along with the old garment. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves obscure our truths. — Ken Liu

Besides, there is perhaps nothing so effective as the monotony of provincial town life in the Andes for suffocating ideals and creativity. — Miguel Garnett Johnson

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. — Thomas Merton