J. P. Blake Quotes

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

Flowers for me are just things to give to a beatiful woman.

To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

It is important not to show too many inches at once.

My love is inside me where my fat was.

I always want to sleep on the third date.

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.

I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.

This has been a dream for me.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

Take care of your body from the inside out.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

I'm not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.