Top 100 Quotes About Blackwood
#1. I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
#2. You're such a little moron, aren't you? They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. It's nothing personal, just business. It's all about survival, dear boy." Drusilla Blackwood
Kathy Cyr
#3. What was wrong with Mrs Blackwood doing her own cooking"
"Please" (...) "I personally preferred the arsenic".
Shirley Jackson
#4. Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that certain someone in your life?
-Rusty Blackwood
Rusty Blackwood
#5. My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
Algernon Blackwood
#6. There is really nothing more unattractive than the sight of a young woman displaying a repulsive amount of arm.
Caroline Blackwood
#7. The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.
Algernon Blackwood
#8. It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood
#10. They talked trees from morning till night. It stirred in her the old subconscious trail of dread, a trail that led ever into the darkness of big woods; and such feelings, as her early evangelical training taught her, were temptings. To regard them in any other way was to play with danger.
Algernon Blackwood
#11. We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.
Nina Blackwood
#12. A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.
Gary L. Blackwood
#15. Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")
Algernon Blackwood
#17. It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.
Algernon Blackwood
#18. A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
Algernon Blackwood
#19. Life is dangerous," said Simon. "Young people need to see the world.
Sage Blackwood
#20. The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
Nina Blackwood
#21. I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
Algernon Blackwood
#22. No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
Algernon Blackwood
#23. Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.
Nina Blackwood
#24. People that really know me will tell you that I am not a video vixen.
Nina Blackwood
#25. For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. What
Algernon Blackwood
#26. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#27. And soon after he slept, the change of wind he had divined stirred gently the reflection of the stars within the lake.
Algernon Blackwood
#28. For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control.
Algernon Blackwood
#29. Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
Algernon Blackwood
#30. Clothing is a wrapper, it means nothing. Your worth is measured by your actions and the words you speak.
Bridget Blackwood
#31. When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
Nina Blackwood
#32. She remembered Fiona saying something once, there was nothing more attractive than a competent man. At the time she'd been a young girl, without true understanding, but now she agreed.
Lily Blackwood
#33. Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.
George R R Martin
#34. I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my loneliness and my poverty. The former makes me appreciate the companionship of the wind and rain, while the latter preserves my liver and prevents me wasting time in dancing attendance upon women.
Algernon Blackwood
#35. I'll accompany you too, fair lady," said Reven. "I would fain meet your grandmother."
"You would what?" said Elfwyn.
"He means he'd like to," said Jinx. Some of the books in Simon's house used old-fashioned words like that.
Sage Blackwood
#36. I'm not sure how people drink out of skulls, Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup.
Sage Blackwood
#37. The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
Algernon Blackwood
#38. You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.
Gary L. Blackwood
#39. Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.
Nina Blackwood
#40. You're still hurting and you might hurt forever but I want to be the one to comfort you.
Bridget Blackwood
#41. It was really difficult to believe you had a right to argue when you were confronted by wise-looking men telling you that you did not.
Sage Blackwood
#42. I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
Nina Blackwood
#43. Great Granny Webster seemed to hate colours. Almost everything she owned was either black or dark brown.
Caroline Blackwood
#44. His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#45. What, you'd rather be admired than useful? said Simon. Plenty of people are neither.
Sage Blackwood
#48. Hm. Didn't you use to be a lot smaller?"
"Yes," said Jinx. "Because I used to be six.
Sage Blackwood
#49. It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
Algernon Blackwood
#50. He didn't complete me, because hell, I was complete to begin with, but he was the perfect complement, one that I'd be hard pressed to find in someone else.
Jennifer Blackwood
#51. I was supposed to be the king. Too much work so I turned the job down. If I ever decide I want to wear a tiara, I'll just remove Manias' head and take his crown. He's lucky he's my best friend. - Varian
Bridget Blackwood
#52. No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.
Algernon Blackwood
#53. My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.
Algernon Blackwood
#54. I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.
Nina Blackwood
#55. I'd never looked up and enjoyed the stars for being stars; I'd missed out on the beauty. First I was too afraid and then I was too busy.
Bridget Blackwood
#56. Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.
Edgar Allan Poe
#57. Do I want this woman to be another assassin or just want me for my body? Is it wrong if I want both? - Varian
Bridget Blackwood
#58. She took one of her poodle's charcoal biscuits out of the packet and ate it herself. 'Either these are quite delicious or quite disgusting. Like many things in life, it's rather hard to tell which,' she said.
Caroline Blackwood
#59. Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.
("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")
Algernon Blackwood
#60. What is Reality, in the last resort," he asked, "but the thing a man's vision brings to him--to believe? There's no other criterion. The criticism of opposite types of mind is merely a confession of their own limitations." Being
Algernon Blackwood
#62. Effrem got out, walked across the yard, then down a breezeway and
Grant Blackwood
#63. Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal.
Caroline Blackwood
#64. Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's.
Nina Blackwood
#65. She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word "tip" in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted the Duchess to be upside down with her face buried in the sewage of some manhole while her beautifully shod feet waved desperate high-heels in the air.
Caroline Blackwood
#66. First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
Nina Blackwood
#67. because what one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.
Algernon Blackwood
#68. I am what I am, and what I am is a work in progress.
E.E. Blackwood
#69. Regretfully, he remained an alluring mystery, with fascinating lines and details she could not help but seek to examine further and memorize.
Lily Blackwood
#70. That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.
Tristan Blackwood
#71. I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
Nina Blackwood
#72. C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?
Darcy Coates
#73. Guys are one click games and we have to be Rubik's cubes. It's not fair.
Bridget Blackwood
#74. The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are.
Rusty Blackwood
#75. But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#77. A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.
Nina Blackwood
#78. It was clear, however, that the woman had in herself some secret source of joy, that she was now an aggressive, positive force, sure of herself, and apparently afraid of nothing in heaven or hell.
Algernon Blackwood
#79. Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire!
Algernon Blackwood
#80. For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
Algernon Blackwood
#81. I am what I am, and I don't apologize for being honest.
Rusty Blackwood
#82. My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
Nina Blackwood
#83. As we move on year by year in this life, we learn that telling doesn't necessarily purge; telling something is merely a reliving, and it's a torment.
Anne Rice
#84. I was banished," said Reven proudly.
"What for?" Elfwyn pressed.
"The king said I was anathema."
"He doesn't like athemas?"
"Anathema means, like, accursed," said Jinx. "Probably it was for robbing people.
Sage Blackwood
#85. The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection.
Algernon Blackwood
#86. It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo")
Algernon Blackwood
#87. Damian..."
"Yes?"
"Where are you?"
"Wherever you want me to be."
"I'll leave the door unlocked.
Andrew Mayne
#88. his thoughts dwelt upon the past rather than upon the future; that he read much history, and felt specially drawn to certain periods whose spirit he understood instinctively as though he had lived in them;
Algernon Blackwood
#89. You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world of his own, apart, and believes that one day he'll come across, either in a book or in a person, the Priest who shall make it clear to him.
Algernon Blackwood
#90. Overhead, between the tips of the highest firs, he saw the first stars peeping, and the sky was a clean, pale amethyst that seemed exactly the colour all these memories clothed themselves with in his mind.
- Secret Worship
Algernon Blackwood
#92. She had dreamed that she lay beneath a spreading tree somewhere, a tree that whispered with ten thousand soft lips of green; and the dream continued for a moment even after waking.
Algernon Blackwood
#93. Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.
Algernon Blackwood
#94. Captain," the canoeist named Eric began, taking a step forward. "Have we been Bermuda triangulated?
Talia R. Blackwood
#95. The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures.
Nina Blackwood
#96. Angrily, she asks, "So you don't care who dies around you?"
She's not talking to me, but I answer the questions anyway. "I don't really care if I die. At least I would be doing something different."
-Varian
Bridget Blackwood
#97. He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death.
- Secret Worship
Algernon Blackwood
#98. I take her face between my hands.
I kiss her forehead,
I kiss her nose,
I kiss her eyes.
And when our lips meet, I kiss her soul.
J.R. Richardson
#99. The king killed his brother, who was actually king, so that he could be king. Then the dead king's wife and baby disappeared, on account the baby would've been king, so the brother probably killed them, too. They do that kind of thing all the time, kings do. They can kill anybody they don't like.
Sage Blackwood
