Blok's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Alexander Blok

#4. 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

#5. We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America.

Newt Gingrich

#6. 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

#7. Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen. They

May Sarton

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

Alexander Blok

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

Alexander Blok

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. My career is just kind of crazy.

David Spade

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

Alexander Blok

#14. 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

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

Alexander Blok

#16. 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

#17. I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

Andrew Cuomo

#18. Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image that reverberates.

Louise Erdrich

#19. Really? Was that how you quit me?

Gayle Forman

#20. On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

Greg Norman

#21. 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

#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

#23. There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

Gavin Hood