Liana Blackburn Quotes & Sayings

In every era there comes a moment when the collective thoughts, whims, and motivations of a people become so self-absorbed, so malignant, so unheeding that nature itself revolts. Man scars the land such that it finally rebels against him. As thoughts can spread despair and death like seedlings of weeds strewn by the wind, so they eventually draw the Gardener to pluck them out. The vetches must be pulled, roots and all. When this happens, the Medium ceases to bless, and instead, it curses. Instead of healing, it spews poison. It happens swiftly and terribly. The ancients gave it a name, this culling process that blackens the world. They named it after a wasting disease that occurs in once-healthy groves of trees. They called it the Blight. — Jeff Wheeler

Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good. — James Gleick

My favorite runner is Usain Bolt, who happens to be Jamaican and is the fastest man in the world. — Dule Hill

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found... — Sarah Dessen

I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. — Willy Russell

Ahoy there, Lord Pegleg!" cried the Fool. "Why are you hopping on one foot?"
"And what would you have do on one foot?" the man asked. "Pirouette? Besides, if I were to untie my other foot I would move too fast for anyone to see me. Why, I would trip over the equator in one stride."
"That's pretty quick," the Fool said.
"If you think that's quick," the man replied, "you should have seen me before the old arthritis set in. — Eric Metaxas

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter. — Billy Bob Thornton

The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency. — Simon Conway Morris

You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength. — Cassandra Clare

A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human. — Terraine Francois

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane. — Jacques Audiard