Blackwood Farm Quotes

#1. I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Anne Rice

#2. There is this idea of history as something you make, as a meaningful narrative with a beginning and an end, the end being a utopia of happiness that we'll reach through socialism or free trade or democracy, and then it will all be wonderful.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.

Scott Ellis

#4. He stood there as I walked on. Never trust a man with a perfectly-trimmed mustache ...

Charles Bukowski

#5. Jillian followed. "Maybe, but don't worry, he's not my type. I'm trying to rehabilitate my uniform 'fetish' to strictly FedEx and UPS - bigger packages." Jackson

Jewel E. Ann

#6. Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.

Jack LaLanne

#7. No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

Margaret Atwood

#9. All I can do in one session is to be real, to leap into the patient's life, to offer observations in the hope that he'll be able to open doors and explore some new parts of himself in his ongoing therapy.

Irvin D. Yalom

#10. Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.

Corliss Lamont

#11. When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

Tom Rath

#12. As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.

Anne Rice

#13. Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

Kevin Garnett

#14. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. Does not ingenuity consist in the finding or creating of connections between apparently extraneous orders of ideas?)

Primo Levi

#16. These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports ... they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them ... that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.

Kelli Jae Baeli