Blok Quotes

#1. You see, art makes people think. Blok didn't want people to think. If that happened, they might have realized what was actually happening.

D.J. MacHale

#2. The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show.

Vsevolod Meyerhold

#3. The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

Alexander Blok

#4. The only person that I want to love me is my wife.

Peter Capaldi

#5. Poor land, poor land, what do you mean
to the heart that moves in me?
Poor love, poor love, poor wife of mine,
why do you weep so bitterly?

(from Retribution book 2, I)

Alexander Blok

#6. Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#7. stars, Where did such anguish come from?" And the stars tell him, The stars tell him everything.

Alexander Blok

#8. The sinking of the Titanic has made me indescribably happy; there is, after all, an ocean.

Alexander Blok

#9. With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution ... This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

Alexander Blok

#10. The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water

A woman's shriek assaults the ear

While above, in the sky, inured to everything,

The moon looks on with a mindless leer

("The Unknown Lady")

Alexander Blok

#11. That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

Joe Pantoliano

#12. As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

Larry Page

#13. Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Alexander Blok

#14. I once stirred thunder in the skies, And now, unlike the days of yore - Just tears in a drunken poet's eyes And laughter - from some whore.

Alexander Blok

#15. The bourgeois stands like a question mark,
Speechless, like the hungry cur,
The ancient world stands there behind him,
A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

Alexander Blok

#16. Things happen. Things that you think you'll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better with time. You forget. Forgive. Whatever. Life goes on and you go on with it.

Sophie Jordan

#17. What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

Alexander Blok

#18. The mirror's light sparks in the eyes,

And horrified, my lids drawn tight,

I step back to that realm of night

Where not a single exit lies...

(Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

Alexander Blok

#19. Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman.

Frank Miller

#20. How often we sit weeping - you
and I - over the life we lead!
My friends, if you only knew
the darknes of the days ahead!

Alexander Blok

#21. The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#22. Inside my soul a treasure is buried.

The key is mine and only mine.

How right you are, you drunken monster!

I know: the truth is in the wine.

("The Unknown Lady")

Alexander Blok