Blakney Francis Quotes

#1. It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph
would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the
photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took
it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of
Sam.

Stephen Chbosky

#2. You see her for who she really is, past all the disillusions most people get tangled up in when they think they are falling in love. You accept her flaws, and you love her just as much because of them as you do in spite of them.

Blakney Francis

#3. When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.

Sam Hamill

#4. We were on the same boat, just trying to figure it all out.

Blakney Francis

#5. To work is to live without dying.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. A man who sits hopelessly needs hope to get up more than he needs legs.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Gary Hamel

#8. The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

Blakney Francis

#9. I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction.

Blakney Francis

#10. Simple things can be beautiful too, you know

Blakney Francis

#11. Only a small, supernatural figure remained at the scene of the crime.* He did resolve one mystery while in Salem: indeed the devil needs conscious human collusion to work evil.

Stacy Schiff

#12. Fresh popcorn is near impossible to resist, second only to fresh doughnuts.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#13. It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you're in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.

Blakney Francis

#14. I was Pluto, her rejected planet, but that didn't mean I could stop her from being the center of my universe.

Blakney Francis