Top 100 Blackwell's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.
Emily Blackwell
#5. And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.
Lawana Blackwell
#6. 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
#7. There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
Unita Blackwell
#8. We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
Kenneth Blackwell
#9. Valley's don't last forever ... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.
Lawana Blackwell
#10. I perform first for an audience of one and if He's pleased that settles it.
Hope D. Blackwell
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.
Chris Blackwell
#16. 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
#17. Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Lawana Blackwell
#19. Faith would not be neccesary if one could be sure about everything.
Lawana Blackwell
#20. And you would not Shift into a Fox, noti in a box, not wearing sock?
Scout
Tammy Blackwell
#21. In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
Morton Blackwell
#22. You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
Kenneth Blackwell
#23. 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
#24. Why me?" I secreted into her ear.
"You were the only one I saw," she whispered back, making my heart burst.
Fisher Amelie
#25. 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
#26. Whatever you want to see in those you lead, you have to be willing to be to those you lead.
Hope D. Blackwell
#27. It's not always going to be easy, and you will, without a doubt, screw up over and over again; but the next morning you'll wake up a new, changed person, and you'll try again. Be strong. Be brave. And, please, be good.
Tammy Blackwell
#28. Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.
Morton Blackwell
#29. It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.
Lawana Blackwell
#30. I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
Otis Blackwell
#32. God's grace is twofold, Both unmerited favor and divine enablement. While one makes you worthy to be, the other makes you able to do.
Hope D. Blackwell
#33. Are you a murderer?"
"That depends, are you one of those animal activist[s] that believe meat is murder?
Tammy Blackwell
#34. 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
#35. I'm Lily Ivory, and this is my friend Sailor."
"You sail?"
"No. It's my name, not my avocation.
Juliet Blackwell
#36. If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#37. If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#38. If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#39. Each layer is marked with the name of a child. First child takes off first layer, and passes it to next child named. Until finally the name on the last layer is the one to receive gift." "That's a
Juliet Blackwell
#40. It's been so many years since I actually had a date that I've forgotten how to act. You don't mention your ex when you've finished fucking your date; it's poor protocol
Scarlet Blackwell
#41. Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#42. If it's not a dead body ... does this have to do with the cape?" asked Oscar.
"Oscar, I thought we agreed we weren't going to mention that to people," I reminded him.
"Sailor's not people."
"Sailor's curious," Sailor said. "What cape?
Juliet Blackwell
#43. The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#44. Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
Unita Blackwell
#45. There's something in there," Matt said. "Something alive. It punched me."
"Punched you?" Baldwin's face screwed up. "Are you sure a bat didn't fly into you? I bet there are a few in there."
Matt rubbed his tender jaw. "Unless its name is Bruce Wayne, that wasn't a bat.
K.L. Armstrong
#46. You can't stay in bed forever."
"Why not? It's warm. And comfy. And it's got all these great pillows.
Tammy Blackwell
#47. 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
#48. Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
Lawana Blackwell
#49. Condemnation is a tool of the enemy, but conviction is God's means of bringing us to repentance.
Hope D. Blackwell
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Emotional baggage doesn't fit in the overhead compartment. You have to pay extra to check it.
Juliet Blackwell
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think ...
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
#68. I don't blame you," Genevieve said. "Sunnyvale isn't exactly Paris.
Juliet Blackwell
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.
Morton Blackwell
#75. 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
#76. For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Lawana Blackwell
#77. 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
#79. Can't we just agree to disagree on this point and move on?
Tammy Blackwell
#80. 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
#82. I work in my pajamas most of the time. No matter what you're wearing, you can sound businesslike on the phone.
Juliet Blackwell
#83. He scowled at the world in general, and me in particular.
Tammy Blackwell
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!
Ed Blackwell
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The biggest miracles are usually found right behind the biggest obstacles.
Hope D. Blackwell
#94. Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.
Hope D. Blackwell
#96. When we live daily with the aspiration to do everything we do with love, our days will never be lacking.
Trish Blackwell
#97. There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.
Tammy Blackwell
#98. 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
#99. The answer to all of life's problems are out there somewhere its just a question of finding the right book
Tammy Blackwell
