Top 100 Blackwell Quotes
#1. Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly
#2. Blackwell had become that jaguar she'd evoked the first time she'd laid eyes on him. His shoulders rolled and bunched just so he settled in for a feast.
Kerrigan Byrne
#3. And why is he here?" "Because an illustrious client has placed her piteous case in my hands. It is the Lady Eva Blackwell, the most beautiful debutante of last season.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#4. I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
Ornette Coleman
#5. It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy Talbot Blackwell, warning her that one of her guest editors was on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
Elizabeth Winder
#6. I'd discovered that when the most precious thing in your life could slip through
your fingers, investments, money, those
things suddenly meant absolutely jack.
Spencer Blackwell
Fisher Amelie
#7. You are not in charge, Cannon Blackwell. You do not eat my pussy or pay my bills, so you don't get a say.
S.E. Hall
#8. Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor - the first American woman to have become a doctor.
David McCullough
#9. Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
Johnny Rivers
#10. The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Nellie Bly
#11. You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.
Meryl Streep
#12. I like the 'Blackwell' adventure games, and I'm fond of some of Telltale's games, like 'Hector' and 'Puzzle Agent' - simple stories, but fun. I thought 'Heavy Rain' was amazing.
Jane Jensen
#13. Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority.
Marcy Kaptur
#14. Just over one month from publication. The launch was really exciting and everyone had a lovely time. Thank you very much Blackwell's of Edinburgh for hosting the event.
Mary Bale
#15. For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Lawana Blackwell
#16. In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.
Ken Blackwell
#18. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
Morton Blackwell
#19. When in doubt, you face the possibility of deception.. when you are decieved, you face the possibility of diversion... when you are diverted, you face the possibility of disobedience...and these are the D's to every man's Defeat.
Hope D. Blackwell
#20. They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
Kenneth Blackwell
#21. I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
Otis Blackwell
#23. I don't blame you," Genevieve said. "Sunnyvale isn't exactly Paris.
Juliet Blackwell
#24. One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think ...
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#25. Seek to get to the heart of the matter, because regardless of how hard it has become, everyone still breathing has one.
Hope D. Blackwell
#26. I don't know how long we stayed frozen in that moment, but it was a long time. Sometimes I think there are parts of us still there, forever staring into the emotional maelstrom of one another's eyes.
Tammy Blackwell
#27. I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
Otis Blackwell
#29. Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
Elise Blackwell
#30. We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#31. I've seen him drop girlfriends and friends on a whim and never so much as think about looking back. It's not that he's cruel; he just doesn't realize what he's doing.
Tammy Blackwell
#32. Emotional baggage doesn't fit in the overhead compartment. You have to pay extra to check it.
Juliet Blackwell
#33. I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#34. Sometimes when you try too hard to protect the people you care about, you end up hurting them instead.
- Jase, Time Mends (Timber Wolves #2)
Tammy Blackwell
#35. Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
#36. I've worked in so many areas
I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.
David Blackwell
#37. I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
Chris Blackwell
#40. The answer to all of life's problems are out there somewhere its just a question of finding the right book
Tammy Blackwell
#41. Apparently he's known as the "King of Selfies," this Instagrammer takes some, um, interesting photos. You'll be laughing the second you land on his page.
Don Blackwell
#42. There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.
Tammy Blackwell
#43. When we live daily with the aspiration to do everything we do with love, our days will never be lacking.
Trish Blackwell
#45. Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.
Hope D. Blackwell
#46. The biggest miracles are usually found right behind the biggest obstacles.
Hope D. Blackwell
#47. Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.
Lawana Blackwell
#48. For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#49. It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#50. Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!
Ed Blackwell
#51. Child never allowed to give would surely become a self-indulgent adult, his happiness dependent upon whatever was put into his outstretched palm.
Lawana Blackwell
#52. Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.
Unita Blackwell
#55. He scowled at the world in general, and me in particular.
Tammy Blackwell
#56. I work in my pajamas most of the time. No matter what you're wearing, you can sound businesslike on the phone.
Juliet Blackwell
#58. It is a well-established fact that in healthy loving women, uninjured by the too frequent lesions which result from childbirth, increasing physical satisfaction attaches to the ultimate physical expression of love ... Love between the sexes is the highest and mightiest form of human sexual passion.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#59. Can't we just agree to disagree on this point and move on?
Tammy Blackwell
#62. And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.
Lawana Blackwell
#63. Whatever you want to see in those you lead, you have to be willing to be to those you lead.
Hope D. Blackwell
#64. The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#65. Why me?" I secreted into her ear.
"You were the only one I saw," she whispered back, making my heart burst.
Fisher Amelie
#66. To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#67. You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
Kenneth Blackwell
#68. In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
Morton Blackwell
#69. And you would not Shift into a Fox, noti in a box, not wearing sock?
Scout
Tammy Blackwell
#70. Faith would not be neccesary if one could be sure about everything.
Lawana Blackwell
#73. Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Lawana Blackwell
#74. I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#75. Three smiling men the size of Wisconsin were squeezed into the cab.
Juliet Blackwell
#76. Trying to preach to the world and simultaneously be accepted and elevated in it leads to a diluted message and lifestyle of compromise and contradiction.
Hope D. Blackwell
#77. She was a woman who cared more about what she was right about than about being right.
Elise Blackwell
#79. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
Juliet Blackwell
#80. O come all ye faithful ... " I began.
"Joyful and triumphant ... " Liam joined in.
We made it through the first three words of the second verse, and then realised we didn't know any more.
"Liam?"
"Yeah?"
"We could be the two worst singers in the history of the entire world.
Tammy Blackwell
#81. How are you feeling?" Charlie asked, adding a small bottle of V-8 juice to the bedside table.
"Like I just sat through an entire Justin Bieber concert."
"Headache and nausea?
"And an overwhelming desire to die.
Tammy Blackwell
#82. - a freak. I don't want to be seen as a scary freak anymore. And with that I dropped a freeze-dried bat into the bubbling brew.
Juliet Blackwell
#83. Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.
Chris Blackwell
#84. I can't be what you need me to be." The whisper sounded as if it had been wrung out of him.
A pronounced ache settled in her chest, but she wasn't going to let this fragile thing they were starting end here and now. She wasn't a quitter.
"Then I'll take whatever you can give me.
Tammy Blackwell
#86. It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell
#88. God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#89. When we persue happiness for it's own sake, it's like chasing the end of a rainbow. It will always elude us. It is when we're committed to some higher purpose that happiness somehow breaks through and comes to dwell with us.
Lawana Blackwell
#90. Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.
Chris Blackwell
#91. I am not the sort of person about whom stories are told. Those of humble birth suffer their heartbreaks and celebrate their triumphs unnoticed by the bards, leaving no trave in the fables of their time.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#92. Plants give us clean air and beauty and sustenance, and, perhaps most important, they represent eternal life. Even when they die they rise again. Their vibrations are green and bright. All as it was meant to be. I
Juliet Blackwell
#93. Vampires? You think vampires are real? Seriously?"
"The werewolf is asking me if I believe in vampires?
Tammy Blackwell
#94. Oh. Too bad. Well, all's quiet so far. There was a heckuva lot goin' on last night, though. Think it might be one o' them poultry heists."
"Poultry heist? Someone's stealing chickens?" I asked.
Maya nudged me. "He means poltergeists.
Juliet Blackwell
#96. Every once in a while Carlos broke out of restrained cop mode and got poetic. I found it a bit charming and a whole lot disconcerting.
Juliet Blackwell
#98. There's an old adage about everything looking better in the morning light. I'm guessing that whoever thought of that had never been punched in the face.
Tammy Blackwell
#99. I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell
#100. Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?
Lawana Blackwell
