Michael Blackson Quotes & Sayings

Government rules the present. Literature rules the future. — Lord Acton

That's easy. Don't piss me off, don't get anyone killed, don't be stupid and watch each other's backs. I like to keep it simple. That way there's less room for people to misunderstand me. - Reilly Campbell, Gunship — J.J. Snow

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself. — Michael Heizer

I prefer that people remember me as a president who made reforms rather than a president who did nothing. — Francois Hollande

We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. — William Blackstone

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. — Annie Dillard

I hear my family's voices in the jangling of my charms. — Viola Shipman

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people. — Vivienne Westwood

Happiness lies within the heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

pg. 58. As a kid, I always assumed the know-it-alls on Jeopardy! were obviously the smartest people in America. If you were smart, that's how you showed it: by knowing all your state flowers and kings of Saxony. But what if Rob's right and that's a different, much shallower kind of intelligence? Is my mountain of flash cards all for naught? — Ken Jennings

And the man then said Oh, please: Just let me know if you come upon bark textures that recall the erosion patterns of human hope...And then he disappeared behind a tree...and the forest fell into silence... — Evan Dara

We can't worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer. — David Cronenberg

But here's the bottom line, the president of the United States, he controls the bully pulpit, he can talk about anything he wants to talk about. — Timothy Griffin