Lillie Devereux Blake Quotes

#1. The most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#2. Things have changed. There are even fewer edges now than there were before. The world is less wild. There are fewer magics, more secrets, and only a handful of people who know the name of the wind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. The shock of the real.

Edward Abbey

#4. There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

Chris Brogan

#5. Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Julianna Baggott

#6. By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#8. Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#9. Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.

Sarah Paulson

#11. I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#12. Kissing is something that everybody does!

Miley Cyrus

#13. You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don't spend it surfing the Internet or reading.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#14. I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'

Huey Lewis

#15. People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#16. If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#17. My given name is James."
"James Moriarty."
...
"Really? Sherlock wishes to discuss odd names with me?"
"And a point to Miss Moriarty."
...
"You're an idiot. Truly.

Heather W. Petty

#18. We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#19. Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.

Lillie Devereux Blake

#20. Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.

Seth Godin

#21. I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Christopher Columbus