Farenthold Blake Quotes & Sayings

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics. — Edi Rama

I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,
each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Ruggles disliked Christopher Tietjens with the inveterate dislike of the man who revels in gossip for the man who never gossips. — Ford Madox Ford

It's nice when someone knows their lines. — Edward Norton

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles. — Sara Sheridan

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us. — Zadie Smith

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
present twelve o'clock at midnight. — William Shakespeare

I was a girl and I had the best deadly toys in the room. Gun envy is an ugly thing. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. — Michael E. DeBakey

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us! — Sue Barker

You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul. — Marie Forleo

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth. — Simone De Beauvoir

Outside, the rain was still falling steadily; he could hear it pattering on the glass skylight at the far end of the room and cascading into the water-spouts. Inside, no one stirred; all were dozing like himself over their liqueur glasses, pleasantly conscious that they were in the dry. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

To the eternal "Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one," I just say, "Yeah, but not everybody's got ten thousand of them." It distresses me that the wit of this riposte so often fails to impress the asshole I'm talking to. — Robert Christgau