John Blake Quotes

#1. The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all ...

Sara Shepard

#2. There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

John Drinkwater

#3. Blake inspires instant, tender Blakelust in everyone he meets. All of his beauties are meant to be touched, and he likes to be touched.

John Valentine

#4. There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

Frederick Lenz

#5. It's an important part of knight training - sweeping maidens off their feet.

Katie M. John

#6. I write to make sense of my life.
-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

John Cheever

#7. I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST

Blake Crouch

#9. Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point.

Lyle Lovett

#10. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, and Jimmy Cobb playing "All Blues," a moody, blues form piece in 6/8, off the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Blake Crouch

#11. I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Blake Bailey

#12. Blake turned to John. "I know you already know this, Mr. McHugh, but your daughter is the most exceptional person I've ever had the honor of meeting. She's a testament to your dedication as a parent." He squeezed Livia's hand back.

Debra Anastasia

#13. Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

Philip Pullman

#14. No matter if and when they parted, the would never be separated. Not really.

Kiera Cass

#15. I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

John McEnroe

#16. Its a matter of time that the money I make become a financial cake that I could eat everyday.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#17. People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

Mike Huckabee

#18. Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#19. Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#20. The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

William Blake

#21. Suggested Reading Louis Bayard, The Black Tower; Sarah Blake, Grange House; F. G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls; Michael Cox, The Glass of Time; Mark Frost, The List of Seven; John Harwood, The Ghost Writer; Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale.

Susan Hill